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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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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.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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