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March 14 - March 20, 2023
It is not reason but wonder and awe that open us to the vastness of the universe, which make us receptive to the deepest aspects of reality that are accessible to us.
In order to pray we need a refinement of the inner life, a sharpened conscience, a recognition that “prayer is action, an event.”
What has happened to our sense of wonder, of mystery, of the ineffable, all of which have been suppressed as unnecessary to a modern age, yet all of which are essential to our humanity?
“No religion, magnificent as it may be, can survive without repair from time to time.”
Jews have not preserved the ancient monuments, they have retained the ancient moments.
Time is eternity formed into tassels. The moments of our lives are like luxuriant tassels. They are attached to the garment and are made of the same cloth. It is through spiritual living that we realize that the infinite can be confined in a measured line.
The days of our lives are representatives of eternity rather than fugitives, and we must live as if the fate of all of time would totally depend on a single moment.
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
