The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for 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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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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