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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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