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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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