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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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