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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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