I have a broad but not an expert or scholarly background in the Jewish tradition. I've tried to learn what I can from childhood, but I am not an expert on Jewish teachings.
The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient.
Worry is itself an illness, since worry is an accusation against Divine Wisdom, a criticism of Divine Mercy.
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One
I am not free and independent; I am a traveler with duties.
The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.
On the contrary, it's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!
It's a lot of hard work to do a weekly TV show. It's certainly not fun.
It is possible to be dumb and be a college president.
You can make a thousand promises to yourself that you'll take that same fantastic love and give it to someone else, but the moment you see that person with someone else, it's like a gut full of razorblades. It never gets easier. And it shouldn't, really.