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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Beginning Happiness Life Living Lying Understanding Wonder
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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Care Faith Inner Open Solicitude Wonder
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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Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
Every little deed counts.
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Count Deed Everything Little Responsibility Saving Success
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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