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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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