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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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
University Teacher
Warszawa
Abraham Heschel
Amazed
Spiritual
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To be is to stand for.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity - there is the challenge.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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