People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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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.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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