That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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