It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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