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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Control Giving Goal Own Realm Share Space Time
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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