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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 pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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