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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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