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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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