Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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