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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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 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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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