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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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 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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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