To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThings, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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 man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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