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• Next to being the children of God our greatest privilege is being the brothers of each other.

• A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

• Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God— such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

• 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.

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

• How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you— for that is the meaning of your life.

• I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

• I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.

• Leisure is the exultation of the possible.

• Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.

• Solitude is the place of purification.

• One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. (From Paths in Utopia)

• The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

• The ones who count are those persons who— though they may be of little renown— respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.

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

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

• There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.

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

• We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully.

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

• Without distance there is no dialogue between the two.

• Success is not one of the names of God.

—This unsigned comment is by Kalki (talk • contribs) .

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." is from The Legend of the Baal-Shem (Princeton University Press, 1995), p.36 (Google Books). I have moved it to the article, with source. Cwloney (talk) 20:46, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

• Thanks for moving this into the article. I have added 1955 as the date of original publication. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:13, 9 June 2014 (UTC)