New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn 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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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