When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur 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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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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