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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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Anxious Financial Maturity Mean People Prepare Spiritual
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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