Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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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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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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