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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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