Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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