Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI 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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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