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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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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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