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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Acceptance Appreciate Appreciation High Seem Value
It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Cry Remain Silence Sometimes Tell Unbroken Wish
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Answer Answering Ask Encompass Enough Know Querry Questions Want
In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling
Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Begin Done Insight Look Man Satisfaction
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Absurdity Art Beyond Count Deed Meaning Power Remember
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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Compassion Other Passion Strength Suffer Time
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Calm Discipline Mindset Positive Respect Root Self Vibe
The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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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

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