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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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