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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
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Warszawa
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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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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Everything is phenomenal everything is incredible never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law. And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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