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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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