Quote #35

Without distance there is no dialogue between the two.

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  1. When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
  2. The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.
  3. We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, …
  4. Success is not one of the names of God.
  5. We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
  6. There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The o…
  7. The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.
  8. The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings.

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