Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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