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Re: Words to live by.... (2.00 / 2)

"we are able to look at the world with two faculties--with reason and with wonder'

"In the eyes of the world... I am an average man. But to my heart I am of great moment. The challenge I face is how to actualize, how to concretize, the quite emminence of my being. Beyond all agony and anxiety lies the most important ingredient of self-reflection: the preciousness of my own existence...and I resist the thought of gambling away its meaning.

both are by theologian abraham joshua heschel


"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa!" Allen Ginsberg
by canadian gal on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 04:13:28 PM EST

Re: Words to live by.... (2.00 / 2)

Love that last part:

"and I resist the thought of gambling away its meaning."

Really makes you stop and think.


On Nov 4th, Barack Obama officially ends the Southern Strategy....
by WashStateBlue on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 04:18:51 PM EST
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heschel has a goldmine of good quotes... (2.00 / 1)

and he was to the right of martin luther king on that famous march from selma to montgomery.


"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa!" Allen Ginsberg
by canadian gal on Thu Jul 24, 2008 at 04:23:50 PM EST
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