People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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