Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJudaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Every little deed counts.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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