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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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To be is to stand for.
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Be Nature Positive Power Raise Stand To Voice
It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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