It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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