Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFor 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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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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