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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
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Warszawa
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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