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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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