Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThis 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To be is to stand for.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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