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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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