Top 9 Quotes by Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

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.

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

People, Heaven, Would Be

"The Big Little Book of Jewish Wit & Wisdom‎" by Sally Ann Berk, (p. 73), 2000.

There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.

Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Heart, Broken, Perfect

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

Heart, Promise, Mouths

"The Season of the Witch: Le Couer Dechire" by Etienne De Mendes, (p. 545), 2008.

God is only where you let Him in.

Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

"Innerspace : Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy‎" by Aryeh Kaplan, (p. 160), 1990.

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

Hands, Needs, World