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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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.
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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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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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There 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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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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