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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.
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
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We do not step out of the world when we pray we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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...morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Every little deed counts.
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