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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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