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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. …

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Amazed Beginning Fact Wisdom
There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Appreciation Man Manipulation Primary Relate Surround Two Use
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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