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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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