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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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