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Abraham Isaac Kook

"The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness."

Source : "XXVIII : The Inner Light of Torah in the Land of Israel". Translation by Rabbi Bezalel Naor, p. 208,

Abraham Isaac Kook

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“I donâ€™t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a gluttonâ€”â€‹for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.”
“In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.”
“But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.”

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“Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.”
“It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.”
“In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is central in the making and maintenance of rights. In principle, therefore, the more dizzyingly diverse the images that are propagated, the more empowered we will be as a society.”
“Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.”
“I think it's the end of progress if you stand still and think of what you've done in the past. I keep on.”

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