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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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