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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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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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