"We have in common a terrible lonliness. Day after day a question goes up desparately in our minds: Are we alone in the wilderness of the self, alone in this silent universe, of which we are a part. and in which we feel at the same time like strangers?
It is such a situation that makes us ready to search for a voice of God in the world of man: the taste of utter lonliness; the discovery that unless God has a voice, the life of the spirit is a freak; that the world without God is a torso; that a soul without faith is a stump."
-Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, God in Search of Man
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