The Tradition Of The Camp Fire Faces

I Shall Teach You The Best Way To Say Torah. You Must Cease To Be Aware Of Yourselves. You Must Be Nothing But An Ear That Hears What The Universe Of The Word Is Constantly Saying Within You. The Moment You Start Hearing What You Yourself Are Saying, You Must Stop.

It Is Not The Nature Of The Task, But Its Consecration, That Is The Vital Thing.

To Begin With Oneself But Not To End With Onself. To Start From Oneself But Not To Aim At Oneself.

But It Can Also Happen, If Will And Grace Are Joined, That As I Contemplate The Tree I Am Drawn Into A Relation, And The Tree Ceases To Be An It. . . . Does The Tree Then Have Consciousness, Similar To Our Own? I Have No Experience Of That. But Thinking That You Have Brought This Off In Your Own Case, Must You Again Divide The Indivisible? What I Encounter Is Neither The Soul Of A Tree Nor A Dryad, But The Tree Itself.

Every Morning, I Shall Concern Myself Anew About The Boundary, Between The Love-deed-yes And The Power-deed-no, And Pressing Forward Honor Reality. We Cannot Avoid, Using Power, Cannot Escape The Compulsion, To Afflict The World, So Let Us, Cautious In Diction, And Mighty In Contradiction, Love Powerfully.