Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFor living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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We worship God through our questions.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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