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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe road to the sacred leads through the secular.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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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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