Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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