Baal Shem Quotes

#1. Replete is the world with a spiritual radiance, replete with sublime and marvelous secrets. But a small hand held against the eye hides it all," said the Baal Shem.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#2. The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day

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#3. Better blind in Hell than speechless in Heaven. -

R. Scott Bakker

#4. In science, progress is possible. In fact, if one believes in Bayes' theorem, scientific progress is inevitable as predictions are made and as beliefs are tested and refined.

Nate Silver

#5. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

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#6. Some kind of philosophy undergirds every movie, commercial, lecture, or book. Everything we take into our minds is trying to teach us something about how we should think the world is. (Life Hacks, p.83)

Jon Morrison

#7. From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven, and when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, the streams of light flow together and a single brighter light goes forth from that united being.

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#8. If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

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#9. The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

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#10. We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make
sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.

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#11. He who is full of joy is full of love.

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#12. Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

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#13. Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

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#14. Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

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#15. The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.

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#16. Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

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#17. A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.

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#18. He is a pimple on the cock of humanity

Shelly Laurenston

#19. Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, "For my sake, the entire world was created."

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#20. Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering - you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

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#21. Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.

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#22. I am not a person who pursues luxury. I am not like those people who, once they have money, compulsively squander it or show it off.

Wang Jianlin

#23. You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the country was awakening - this goes to the first question you asked - the whole country was awakening to a hundred years of injustice that hadn't been resolved yet.

Birch Bayh

#24. I am going out one door, and shall go through another.

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#25. It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

Lauren DeStefano

#26. Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

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#27. To pull a friend out of the mire, don't hesitate to get dirty.

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#28. If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.

John O'Keefe

#29. The shy girl she had known at Riverrun had grown into a woman who was by turns proud, fearful, cruel, dreamy, reckless, timid, stubborn, vain, and, above all, inconstant.

George R R Martin

#30. Everything above and below is one unity.

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#31. For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.

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#32. When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

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#33. People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

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#34. Mind is the foundation of man.

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#35. There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

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#36. Fear builds walls to bar the light.

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