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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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To be is to stand for.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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