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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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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