The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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