Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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