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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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To be is to stand for.
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This 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.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Every little deed counts.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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