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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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