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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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