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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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