... created. In a slightly different fashion this question has been asked by another modern thinker, the Dalai Lama: "How do we create happiness? We strengthen our good habits and weaken our bad habits." It is through our good deeds that we encounter God. In our deeds we become aware our lives and aware of who we truly are. Heschel poetically imparts upon ... us that "the Bible is the seed, God is the sun, but we are the soil. Every generation is expected to bring forth new understanding and new realization." We find ourselves, thus, in a state of both obligation ... ...

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