Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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