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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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 higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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