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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
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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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
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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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Attached Consecrate Emerge Holiness Learn Sanctuaries Teaches
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Combine Faced Loyalty Religious Tolerance Tradition
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Awareness Begin Divine Hard Work Trust Wonder
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Love Rascal Relate Saint Scholar Test
Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Aeon Cherished Cosmic Shread Tapestry Theory
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Gain Happiness Labor Love Misery
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Deception Mundas People Vanity Vault World
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Attain Fulfillment Human Human Being People Pertain Shared
New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Begin Done Insight Look Man Satisfaction
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Contempt Far Kingdom Man Peril Plain Retain Share Task War

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