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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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