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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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  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

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  Thinking, Self, Encounters

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.81, Stanford University Press

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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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  Ideas, Talent, Capacity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

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  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

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  Loyalty, Commitment, Religion

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.12, Macmillan

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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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  Weekdays, Inspired, Sabbath

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.34, Macmillan

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• In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

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  Faith, Night, Challenges

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• I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again. When I see an act of evil I don't accomodate, I don't accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere. I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

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  Morning, Sunshine, Evil

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• The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

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  Religion, Tragedy, Isolation

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• To be is to stand for.

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• This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

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  Spiritual, Adventure, Goal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.49, Macmillan

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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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  Spiritual, Decay, Failing

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.18, Macmillan

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• The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

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  Moments, Existence, Presence Of God

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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. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. 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. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

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  Lying, Heart, Curves

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• Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

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  Faith, Religious, Jobs

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• Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

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  Prayer, Mindfulness, Emptiness

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• Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; 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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  Motivation, Fall, Men

  "Who Is Man?". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1965.

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• God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

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  Importance, Supreme

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.270, Macmillan

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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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  Creativity, Dark, Night

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.259, Macmillan

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• To be spiritual is to be amazed.

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  Spiritual, Amazed

  "Why is spirituality correlated with life satisfaction?" by Daniel José Camacho, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2017.

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• All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

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  Loss, Horror, Left

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.369, Macmillan

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• The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

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  Spiritual, Healing, Goal

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.18, Macmillan

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• To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.

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  Ineffable, Company

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.16, Macmillan

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• There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

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  Gains, Misery, Labor

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.15, Macmillan

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• To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.

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  Real, Mean, Voice

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1966). “The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence”, Philadelphia : Jewish Publication Society of America

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