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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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