Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

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

A story must be told in such a way that it constitutes help in itself. My grandfather was lame. Once they asked him to tell a story about his teacher. And he related how the holy Baal Shem used to hop and dance while he prayed. My grandfather rose as he spoke, and he was so swept away by his story that he himself began to hop and dance to show how the master had done. From that hour he was cured of his lameness. That's how to tell a story.