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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder
To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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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 of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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