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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
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