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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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