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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Answer Answering Ask Encompass Enough Know Querry Questions Want
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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Adventure Experience Fun Goal Jewish Spiritual Way
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Beyond Comprehensive Event Horizon Relationship Sweep
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Craved Ease God Light Neglect Peril Satisfied Spite Truly
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Combine Faced Loyalty Religious Tolerance Tradition
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious Burning Clinging Faith Heart Pilgrimage Shrine Song Waiting
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Free Guilty Responsible Society Terrible
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong

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