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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Feeling Good Gratefulness Soul
People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Accommodate Act Everywhere Evil Look Myself
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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Certain Challenge Continue Darkest Dawam Faith Goodness Night
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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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Expediency Fall Man Motivation Naturally Right Supreme
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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Begin Done Insight Look Man Satisfaction
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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