Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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