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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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