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To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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Mean Real Voice
The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Beyond Comprehensive Event Horizon Relationship Sweep
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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A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand
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 essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Accustomed Being Beyond Expression Itself Point Space Taken Thinking
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Doe Mean Serve Share Surrender

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