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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Earth Embracing Greatest Man Miracle Understand
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God Light Seeing Way World Worship
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Asking Closer God Question Thinking
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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To be is to stand for.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious

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