Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

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People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves, to see what happens there.
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Collection: People
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There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Collection: Heart
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Do not be satisfied with the speech of your lips and the thought in your heart, all the promises and good sayings in your mouth, and all the good thoughts in your heart; rather you must arise and do!
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Collection: Heart
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One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Collection: Hands
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Peace without truth is a false peace.
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Collection: Truth Is
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First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Collection: Men
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God dwells where we let God in.
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Collection: Letting Go
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When a man makes a reverent face before a face that is no face - that is idol worship!
- Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
Collection: Men