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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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