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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Center Function Hub Prayer Revolving Spoke Wheel
There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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To be is to stand for.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Felt Leg March Praying Word Worship
To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Affecting Deriving Exploiting Living World
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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Broken Existed Our Prayer Sensitivity Symptom Today World
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Anger Buddhist Ceased Changing Controversy Life Striving Truth
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 serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Doe Mean Serve Share Surrender
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
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice

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