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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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
Stars
Never
Scoff
Sneer
Totality
Mock
Dawn
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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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To be is to stand for.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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