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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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 two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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