You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Every little deed counts.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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