Quotes from Baal Shem Tov

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.

People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.

Pleasures are manifestations of God's name.

Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.

The world is new to us every morning - and every man should believe he is reborn each day

The world is new to us every morning - this is God's gift and every man should believe he is reborn each day.

Everyone is unique. Compare not yourself with anyone else lest you spoil God's curriculum.

Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.

He who is full of joy is full of love.

When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.

There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.

The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.

As man acts, God reacts.

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

Just as we love ourselves despite the shortcomings we have, so should we love others despite the shortcomings they have.