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Praying With Heschel

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Quote from p. 206, The Wisdom of Heschel, 

"To escape from the mean and penurious [competitions], from calculating and scheming [WinLose Gaming], is at time the parching [integrative healthy] desire of [ecopolitical LeftBrain Dominant] man [sic]... Prayer [RightBrain ecoconsciousness] clarifies our [ego/ecotherapeutic] hope and intentions. It helps us discover our true [maturing polypathic] aspirations, the [monoculturing] pangs we ignore, the [multicultural] longings we forget [to expand our ego's monocultural identity]. It is an act of self[ego]-purification... It [regeneratively] teaches us what [both Earth and Ego] aspire to, implants in us the ideals we [DNA/RNA health-wealth encrypted] ought to cherish [with even more endo/ecto-symbiotic moral integrity of self-optimizing ego-health as Earth's perduring regenerative wealth]." [Sorry, Abraham, my LeftBrain always has to have the last bracketed word.] No worries. Enjoy your self-and-other perpetuating Sabbath.

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