There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSolitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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