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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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