Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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 true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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