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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Admired Bullying Clever Kind Kindness Old People Young
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
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
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
In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Managed Object Put Second Surround Use Way
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Awe Everything Mystery Reference Sense Transcendence
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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