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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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
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Warszawa
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one's actions.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth. Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man's power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Life is not meaningful...unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself unless it is of value to someone else.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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