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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Every little deed counts.
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Count Deed Everything Little Responsibility Saving Success
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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Broken Existed Our Prayer Sensitivity Symptom Today World
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent

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