Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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