Zalman Schachter-Shalomi famous quotes
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Do not exalt any path above god. There are many paths that lead to god. So people are capable of finding and following the ways that suit them, provided they do not stand still.
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When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.
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The mind is like tofu. By itself, it has no taste. Everything depends on the flavor of the marinade it steeps in.
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Find your major flaw. There lies your glory.
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Dialogue does not happen when we are adversaries.
-- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
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Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.
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I do what I feel is right. I do not fear to walk on a new path and take risk.
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Follow the way of life, which the Holy Prophet has shown you, for verily that is the right path.
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Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?
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History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
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