Being human

RIC_2004, a photo by rchoephoto on Flickr.

Everyone should keep a piece of paper with “for my sake the world was created” in one pocket and a piece of paper with “I am but dust and ashes” in another. The Rabbi was expressing an existential truth: each individual being is important, but not self-important.

Rabbi Simcha Bunim of Peshicha (1765-1827) quoted by Seth Segall