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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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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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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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