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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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