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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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 be is to stand for.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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