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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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