We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself.

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

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?