Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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