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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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