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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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 meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder
Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Adventure Commonplace Friendship Gregariousness Heart Human Loyalty Man Relationship Syllogstic
In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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