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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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