I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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