I am commanded therefore I am.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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