Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELto become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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