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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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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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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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