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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith Gardener Lord Mankind May Plant Sacred Secret Upland
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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