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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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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 tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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