However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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