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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Commitment Decision Living Love Risk Worth
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
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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Dependance Explanation Idea Nonanalogous Self Sufficiency Term Unprecedented
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Anger Buddhist Ceased Changing Controversy Life Striving Truth
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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Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Ask Enrapture Marvelous Number Reason Thing
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Combine Faced Loyalty Religious Tolerance Tradition
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Filling Grandeur Heart Patience Pregnant Try Wish World
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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Human Being Involve Living Responsible Role Understanding World
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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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Forfeit God Hour Humiliate Long Moral Negroes Right Spiritual
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind

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