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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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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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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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