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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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