There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELUnderstanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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