Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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