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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Air Spring Sunday
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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