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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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