There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but 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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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