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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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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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