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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Amazed Beginning Fact Wisdom
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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Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Anxious Financial Maturity Mean People Prepare Spiritual
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Earth Embracing Greatest Man Miracle Understand
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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Common Eternal Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
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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Dimension Essential Immutable Majesty Supreme Time
Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Commitment Decision Living Love Risk Worth
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Care Concern Essence Existence Human Justice Perplexity Solved Transcend
That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap
It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Feeling Good Gratefulness Soul
Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder

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