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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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