The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Assumption Evident Hypothesis Immediate Insight Self
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Amazement Goal
Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Catacomb Skyscraper Worship
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Relating Transcendent
Life without commitment is not worth living.

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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Living
New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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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Begin Insight
The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.

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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Maturity Sudden Tranquility
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.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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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Creativity Dark Majority
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Living
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.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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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Cease
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Free Responsible
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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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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Agony Answer Blasphemy Commit Holocaust Supreme
In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Way
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Begin Edge Mindfulness
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.

ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Felt Leg March Praying Word Worship

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

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