You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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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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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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