Real faith means holding ourselves open to the unconditional mystery which we encounter in every sphere of our life and which cannot be comprised in any formula. Real faith means the ability to endure life in the face of this mystery.

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

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

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

The world is a spinning die, and everything turns and changes: man is turned into angel, and angel into man, and the head into the foot, and the foot into the head. Thus all things turn and spin and change, this into that, and that into this, the topmost to the undermost, and the undermost to the topmost. For at the root all is one, and salvation inheres in the change and return of things.

Solitude is the place of purification.

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