Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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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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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.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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