There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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