There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

In the beginning was the relationship.

I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop.