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to 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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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to 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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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