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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Blessing Faith Gratitude Holy Life
Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Doe God Insight Matter One Realize World
It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Amazed Beginning Fact Wisdom
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Awareness Companionship Divine Faith God Man Mind Mutuality Quality
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite
Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Calm Discipline Mindset Positive Respect Root Self Vibe
Solitude 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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Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Behave Children Dictators Easy People Recovery Tyrants
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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Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious

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