(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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