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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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