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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Concern Evil Human Being Limit Morally Suffering
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Attain Fulfillment Human Human Being People Pertain Shared
The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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