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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 answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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