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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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