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By the word of God the world was created.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Active Appreciation Celebration Expressing Reverence State
I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Ability God Greatness Hold Man Prophet Thought
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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Absurdity Art Beyond Count Deed Meaning Power Remember
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Agree Consciousness Knowing Man Normal Real Responsiveness Sensibility State Stupor Wholly
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society
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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Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Discipline Fruit Inspirational Life Respect Warrior
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Experience Pray Praying World
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder

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