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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject

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