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The task of life is to face sacred moments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
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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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
A soul can create only when alone.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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