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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
Rabbi
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature in which the attainment of power, the utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God's creation. Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people's suffering, to other (people's) humanity, is the index of one's own humanity
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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