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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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 cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power

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