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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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