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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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