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A soul can create only when alone.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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