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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Awareness Companionship Divine Faith God Man Mind Mutuality Quality
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Calm Discipline Mindset Positive Respect Root Self Vibe
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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