God Is Not A Hypothesis Derived From

The Higher Goal Of Spiritual Living Is Not To Amass A Wealth Of Information, But To Face Sacred Moments.

Prayer Is Not A Stratagem For Occasional Use, A Refuge To Resort To Now And Then. It Is Rather Like An Established Residence For The Innermost Self. All Things Have A Home: The Bird Has A Nest, The Fox Has A Hole, The Bee Has A Hive. A Soul Without Prayer Is A Soul Without A Home.

Society Today Is No Longer In Revolt Against Particular Laws Which It Finds Alien, Unjust, And Imposed, But Against Law As Such, Against The Principle Of Law. And Yet We Must Not Regard This Revolt As Entirely Negative. The Energy That Rejects Many Obsolete Laws Is An Entirely Positive Impulse For Renewal Of Life And Law.

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 To Be Attached To Holiness In Time; To Learn How To Consecrate Sanctuaries That Emerge From The Magnificent Stream Of A Year.

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 Mystics, Knowing That Man Is Involved In A Hidden History Of The Cosmos, Endeavor To Awake From The Drowsiness And Apathy And To Regain The State Of Wakefulness For Their Enchanted Souls.