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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath. Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression being points beyond itself may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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