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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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