We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThen 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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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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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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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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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