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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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