The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNormal 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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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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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 test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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