It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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 true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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