Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
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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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 answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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We worship God through our questions.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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