Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIndeed, 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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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