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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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