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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling
For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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