Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.
Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.
To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.
The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there is nothing that is so apt to obscure God's face as a religion.
There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.
To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.
Solitude is the place of purification.
When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Man is like a tree. If you stand in front of a tree and watch it incessantly, to see how it grows, and to see how much it has grown, you will see nothing at all. But tend it at all times, prune the runners and keep it free of beetles and worms, and all in good time-it will come into its growth. It is the same with man: all that is necessary is for him to overcome his obstacles, and he will thrive and grow. But it is not right to examine him hour after hour to see how much has already been added to his stature.
In the beginning was the relationship.
Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.
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