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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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