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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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
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University Teacher
Warszawa
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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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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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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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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