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There are no proofs for the existence of God.
There are only witnesses.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel Read more [...]
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O love that fires the sun keep me burning.
~ Bruce Cockburn Read more [...]
A Blessed Creation Day
A Blessed Creation Day to you.
One of my favorite scripture passages is Acts 17: 28 where it affirms that it is in God that “we live and move and have our being.” Today is a great day to remember not only that the resplendent universe is a Read more [...]
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Before his death, Rabbi Zusya wept as he said “In the coming world God will not ask me: “Why were you not like Moses?” God will not ask me: “Why were you not like Isaiah?” “Why then do you weep?” queried his disciples. Read more [...]
Soul Making
It takes three things to attain a sense of
significant being:
God
A Soul
And a Moment.
And the three are always here.
(Abraham J. Heschel, Insecurity of Freedom, 84)
There is a word that has made a comeback the last dozen years or so. Maybe Read more [...]
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I don’t think anyone “finds” joy. Rather, we cultivate it by searching for the preciousness of small things, the ordinary miracles that strengthen our hearts so we can keep them open to what is difficult.
~ Dawna Markova
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The art of being human is the art of being whole: wholly related to the whole of reality. The word for this exquisite human response to the manifold in the One is holiness. Far from a diminution Read more [...]
A Word to the Wise — Noble
Noble [noh-buh l]
I first remember taking notice of the word “noble” when I was 16. At the time, my life revolved around sports the way a hummingbird’s revolves around flowering gardens, basketball being my favorite nectar. Read more [...]
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Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war, by its nature, is total — but the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial . . . ‘Of Read more [...]
Let Us Bow Our Heads and Remember
“So, let us be alert in a twofold sense:
Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of.
And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”
~ Viktor Frankl,
Man's Search for Meaning
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