It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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