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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word

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