There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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