One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

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

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

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.

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?

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).