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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Dimension Essential Immutable Majesty Supreme Time
In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Certain Challenge Continue Darkest Dawam Faith Goodness Night
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Art Defined Giving Outlive Philosophy Problem Question Right Solution
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Feel Feels Eternal Passing Rush Stillness

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