The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

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

I have learned a new form of service from the wars of Frederick, king of Prussia. It is not necessary to approach the enemy in order to attack him. In fleeing from him, it is possible to circumvent him as he advances and fall on him from the rear and force him to surrender. What is needed is not to strike straight at evil but to withdraw to the sources of divine power, and from there to circle around evil, bend it and transform it into its opposite.

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.