God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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