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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Every little deed counts.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation . In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use. In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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