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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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