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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
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Warszawa
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe. Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. ...I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance, to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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