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- In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
- For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And…
- Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.…
- The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space;…
- We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the…
- God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the…
- There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us…
- The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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