to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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