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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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