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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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