"While praying, listen to the words very carefully.……" — Nachman of Breslov
"While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it."
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18 Quotes by Nachman of Breslov
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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with…
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Grant me the ability to be alone, May it be my custom to go outdoors each day among the trees…
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Always remember, joy is not incidental to spiritual quest. It is vital.
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If you are not a better person tomorrow than you are today, what need have you for a tomorrow?
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If you won't be better tomorrow than you were today, then what do you need tomorrow for?
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It is a great mitzvah to be happy always.
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The essence of peace is to merge two opposites. Therefore your notions should not scare you if you see another,…
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Even if you can't sing well, sing. Sing to yourself. Sing in the privacy of your home. But sing.
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Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself…
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Whoever is able to write a book and does not, it is as if he has lost a child
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There is Truth, the truth of the Truth and there is Peace. The Truth is 'the boy stole an apple',…
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Thinking is more precious than all five senses.
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We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth…
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Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail…
— Charles Brent
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...people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or as if He did not heed their prayers.…
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As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me,…
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Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not,…
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities…
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Every man has frequent grievances which only the solicitude of friendship will discover and remedy, and which would remain for…
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Bottle, whose Mysterious Deep Do's ten thousand Secrets keep, With attentive Ear I wait; Ease my Mind, and speak my…
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One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
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Photography is, for me, a spontaneous impulse coming from an ever attentive eye which captures the moment and its eternity.
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Luck is the attentive photographer's best teacher.
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To be interested is to be absorbed in, wrapped up in, carried away by, some object. To take an interest…
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