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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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