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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Confrontation Grandeur Honest Response Transcend
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
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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Analysis Dignity Intuition Realization Simple Stand
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 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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Adventure Experience Fun Goal Jewish Spiritual Way
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Encouragement God Love Man Person Religious Suffer Time
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
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Existence Moments Presence Of God
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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Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Absurdities Disappointment Frustration Redeem Share World
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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