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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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