Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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 is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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