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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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