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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Every little deed counts.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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