When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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