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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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In prayer we 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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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