Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPeople are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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 course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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