To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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