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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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