Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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