Nothing Can Doom Man But

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.

From My Youth Onwards I Have Found In Jesus My Great Brother. That Christianity Has Regarded And Does Regard Him As God And Savior Has Always Appeared To Me A Fact Of The Highest Importance Which, For His Sake And My Own, I Must Endeavor To Understand . . . I Am More Than Ever Certain That A Great Place Belongs To Him In Israel's History Of Faith And That This Place Cannot Be Described By Any Of The Usual Categories.

One Should Hallow All That One Does In One's Natural Life. One Eats In Holiness, Tastes The Taste Of Food In Holiness, And The Table Becomes An Altar. One Works In Holiness, And Raises Up The Sparks Which Hide Themselves In All Tools. One Walks In Holiness Across The Fields, And The Soft Songs Of All Herbs, Which They Voice To God, Enter Into The Song Of Our Soul.

No Purpose Intervenes Between I And You, No Greed And No Anticipation; And Longing Itself Is Changed As It Plunges From The Dream Into Appearance. Every Means Is An Obstacle. Only Where All Means Have Disintegrated Encounters Occur.

If A Person Kills A Tree Before Its Time, It Is Like Having Murdered A Soul.-rabbi Nachman