Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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