We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

Solitude is the place of purification.