It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThis 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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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