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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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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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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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