Good and evil, then, cannot be a pair of opposites like right and left or above and beneath. "Good" is the movement in the direction of home; "evil" is the aimless whirl of human potentialities without which nothing can be achieved and by which, if they take no direction but remain trapped in themselves, everything goes awry.
Martin Buber
When a man is singing and cannot lift his voice, and another comes and sings with him, another who can lift his voice, the first will be able to lift his voice too. That is the secret of the bond between spirits.
When we grow aware of a new way in which to serve God, we should carry it around with us secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though we were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.
The Way by which a man can reach God is revealed to him only through the knowledge of his essential quality and inclination. Man discovers this essential quality through perceiving his 'central wish,' the strongest feeling which stirs his inmost being. In many cases he knows this central wish only in the form of the particular passion which seeks to lead him astray.... If man lends his will to the direction of his passions, he begins the movement of holiness which God completes. In the hallowing which results, the total man is accepted, confirmed, and fulfilled. This is the true integration.
Yahweh, Jesus, Allah God,
I do not suppose you are very tied to titles,
You seem to revel more in creating and loving
Than arguing like we do.
You are beyond any name,
Beyond this group or that,
Beyond ideas or any ability to
Control You by definitions.
You are the Utterly Free One.
You are the Eternal I
That always allows me to be a Thou
Whenever we meet.
You are the Speaker, I am the spoken,
So Love must be your name!
Which is always beyond words.