For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe awe of God is wisdom.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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