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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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