Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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