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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Either God Importance Important Supreme
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
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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Center Function Hub Prayer Revolving Spoke Wheel
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
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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Adventure Experience Fun Goal Jewish Spiritual Way
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Admired Bullying Clever Kind Kindness Old People Young
God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Debate Explanation God Order Origin Second Thought Universal
Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Alert Greed Heart Jealousy Man Relishing Stillness
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
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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Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder
A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Ability God Greatness Hold Man Prophet Thought
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Confrontation Grandeur Honest Response Transcend

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