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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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 soul can create only when alone.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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