Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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 man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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To 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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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