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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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