Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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 sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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