This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLife is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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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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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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