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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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We worship God through our questions.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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