Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNew 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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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