A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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