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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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