To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love.
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?
He who loves brings God and the World together.
What has to be given up is not the I, but that drive for self-affirmation which impels man to flee from the unreliable, unsolid, unlasting, unpredictable, dangerous world of relation into the having of things.
When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.
Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.
When people come to you for help, do not turn them off with pious words, saying, 'Have faith and take your troubles to God.' Act instead as though there were no God, as though there were only one person in the world who could help -- only yourself.