Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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