The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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