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Blind Love

The greatest gift of love is to turn a blind eye.
Stop Groping

Why complain about darkness when you can turn on the lights?
Lasting Peace

Lasting peace is achieved by those who have made peace between the rigor of their mind and the simplicity of their vision.
Visit the Prisons

Where will you find happiness? Past prison walls, celebrating with the prisoners.
Dark Paths of Wisdom

If there were streetlamps along the path of wisdom, who would discover the hidden treasure?
Getting Ahead with Failure

Only one thing can put you further ahead than success, and that is failure.
Getting Ahead with Failure

Only one thing can put you further ahead than success, and that is failure.
Breaking Limits

Struggling to put the shattered pieces of our lives back together, we discover G-d hidden inside.
Ten miracles were performed for our forefathers in the Holy Temple: No woman ever miscarried because of the smell of the holy meat. The holy meat never spoiled. Never was a fly seen in the slaughterhouse. Never did the High Priest have an accidental seminal discharge on Yom Kippur. The rains did not extinguish the wood-fire burning upon the altar. The wind did not prevail over the column of smoke [rising from the altar]. No disqualifying problem was ever discovered in the Omer offering, the Two Loaves or the Showbread. They stood crowded but had ample space in which to prostrate themselves. Never did a snake or scorpion cause injury in Jerusalem. And no man ever said to his fellow "My lodging in Jerusalem is too cramped for me''
— Ethics of the Fathers, 5:5
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