I went away and cried to the Master of the Universe, "What have you done to me? A mind like this I need for a son? A heart I need for a son, a soul I need for a son, compassion I want from my son, righteousness, mercy, strength to suffer and carry pain, that I want from my son, not a mind without a soul!
Chaim PotokTags: intelligence compassion parenting judaism hasidic-judaism chasidut
I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.
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You can listen to silence, Reuven. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it.
Chaim PotokDo you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.
Chaim PotokWilliamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.
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We become like dead branches and last year's leaves and what the hell good are we for ourselves and the world in a mental ghetto.
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It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.
Chaim PotokWhen the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.
Chaim PotokIn Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.
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It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...
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