This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.