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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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