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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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