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To Be Moved or Not to Be Moved

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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious person's attitude toward history and nature. ~ Abraham Heschel My original passion for the writings (not to mention the life) of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel on whose works I wrote Read more [...]

Join the Revolution — Be a Pebble

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Out of the mouth of babes. ~ some wise toddler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWQoZbgGh9o   Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. ~ Rev. Sydney Smith What I want to bring out is how a pebble Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 5. Joy

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Suppose your spiritual life was a ball team. Who would be your starting five? CLICK on any of the five below. 1. LOVE 2. WONDER 3. GRATEFULNESS 4. COMPASSION 5. JOY    There is only one real blasphemy: the refusal of joy. ~ Paul Rudnick Your Read more [...]

THE DREAM TEAM: My Starting Five ~ 3. Gratefulness

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Suppose your spiritual life was a ball team. Who would be your starting five? For all that has been—Thanks! To all that shall be—Yes! ~ Dag Hammarskjold “Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.” Read more [...]

The Deepest Bow to God is Awe

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Religion begins with the sense of the ineffable, with the awareness of a reality that discredits our wisdom, that shatters our concepts. It is the ineffable with which we must begin. ~ Abraham Heschel One reason I was drawn to Rabbi Abraham Heschel's Read more [...]

A Word to the Wise ~ Integrity / Part 4

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Integrity    [ in–teg–ri-tee ] Part 4, The righteous walk in integrity— happy are the children who follow them. ~ Proverbs 20:7 Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Make justice your home forever. ~ Isaiah 1:16 If the main arbiter for Read more [...]