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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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