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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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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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