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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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