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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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 idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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