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To be is to stand for.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
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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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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