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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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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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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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