Author of quotes: Adin Steinsaltz

The world is not Maya, not an illusion in the Eastern sense. Just what we see as the world, is the product of the errors of the senses. If we could perceive it differently, not through the physical senses, we would have opened quite another world, the world at a higher level, the world as divine speech.

To perform a miracle to cause a sharp change in the laws of nature, it is necessary to create a whole new world.

It must be emphasized that nature and its laws are in some repetitive cycle; statistical determinism is not destroyed by the fact that every part, every particle can decide to make it or not make some movement within its orbit.

If someone wanted to deprive people of their freedom to choose, it can be done without depriving the opportunity to choose, and questioning the authenticity of the solution.

Difficulties and problems, the bitterness and pain experienced by all of creation. And every man decides for himself, where, flinging off the daze, to gather strength and join the fight.

All the achievements of the revolution lies in the destruction of the past, not the future. If people are very well aware that they want to build, they do not need revolution: the evolutionary process will lead to the same results, but without suffering and pain.

The revolutions are made by people not just impatient, but different historical irrational optimism. And let me add that a bloody revolution of the last centuries was based on faith - perhaps even more naive - in inherent in the nature of man is good.

Between ancient Athens and Sparta existed the Union, despite the fact that these cities competed with each other. Once Sparta had been attacked by enemies and demanded from Athens to carry out stipulated in the agreement conditions. The Athenians could not deny that the contract obliges them to come to the aid of the ally. But they decided to limit low: sent the Spartans school teacher, lame bald man. The Athenians believed that any use of Sparta will not. Of course, as agreed, and the Spartans. But the old teacher had Sparta invaluable service: he composed Patriotic hymns, which were severe Spartans at heart. Thanks to the lame teacher despair gave place to hope, and warriors with the new songs on the lips started the battle and won.

And hundreds of thousands of people are able to become a strong nation, and millions of individuals can stay with the crowd.

Individuals become people, when come together in a certain interaction. Society can be good or bad, but in the absence of interactions between its members it will remain a bunch, even multimillion.

In each confession, "I love you", whatever is meant by the word "love" and the word "you" in the first place is the pronoun "I"; without it, this feeling can not exist. Even when love requires total self-denial, she still needed the "I" as the source of emotions. Love cannot be completely deprived of personal time because someone has to be a carrier.

Love is feelings of attraction to the object, to the beloved. But this attraction is not unambiguous, clearly defined emotion. Due to the large number of personal characteristics, differences in the objects of love and the ambiguity of the term there are many types of relationships, which people call love.
In this respect there is a Jewish folk proverb, which shows how vague the meaning of "love", and shows what problems often arise in the use of phrases like "I love you". One day the fisherman caught a huge pike. Taking the fish out of the water and seeing that she was very large, he exclaimed: "Well, I'll take her pan - he loves pike!" Poor fish thought to himself, "I still Have hope." A fisherman brought a fish in a stately home, and the soldier asked him, "What have you got there?" "Pike," he replied. "Well, - said Gayduk, pan loves them." Fish thought that things are not so bad. The fisherman went into the house, and although the fish is barely breathing, she did not abandon hope: it pan loves pike. Brought it into the kitchen and all the cooks were talking about how strong the love of pan to the pike. When the fish came on the table, he entered the pan and began to give instructions: "Cut off the tail, head and have her way". On its last legs fish in despair, exclaimed: "Why did you lie? You do not like fish, you love yourself!"
Poor fish has the problem of linguistic nature: it confused the two different meanings of one word. Hence the question: are these values really so different from each other? And do people not make the same mistake when they think and say about love? Is the "love fish" and is Love with a capital letter. That's clearly not the same. Not only do they have different emotional strength charge - on their own it's different types of emotions.

Love begins when the interest of "outgrowing" the stage of an objective assessment and turns into a personal tendency, and the object is no longer simply a thing or person, estimated by themselves, but the object of affection.

The philosophers of antiquity asserted that the presence of both positive and negative qualities due to the fact that he separated himself from nature, from natural instincts, receiving in return the right to choose both right and wrong.