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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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