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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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