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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELKnowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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A soul can create only when alone.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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