The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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