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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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Beyond Comprehensive Event Horizon Relationship Sweep
Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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. …
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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