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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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