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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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