(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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