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• Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

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  Prayer, Mindfulness, Emptiness

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• There is no answer to Auschwitz...To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair, to sense a ray of God's radiance in the jungles of history.

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  Israel, Agony, Holocaust

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• God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing. Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

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  Father, Compassion, People

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• Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

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  Real, Men, Knowing

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

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  Heart, Thinking, Holy

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, 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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• In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

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  Prayer, Self, Consciousness

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.342, Macmillan

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• Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

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  Faith, Religious, Attitude

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.45, Macmillan

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• There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. 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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  Unique, Years, Two

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.20, Macmillan

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• Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

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  Civilization, Worship, Skyscraper

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.23, Macmillan

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• In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

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  Knives, Civilization, Voice

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

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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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• 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. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.

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  Atheist, Reality, Understanding God

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.120, Macmillan

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• All action is vicarious faith.

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  Action, Vicarious

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.338, Macmillan

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• The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair. Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts. 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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  Heart, Men, Anchors

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.80, Stanford University Press

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• We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

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  Spring, Sunday, Air

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

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  Men, Miracle, Earth

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.112, Stanford University Press

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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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• The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.

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  Future, Writing, Life Is

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• A soul can create only when alone.

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  Soul, Proximity

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

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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 time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

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  War, Men, Tasks

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.11, Macmillan

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• Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

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  Heart, Men, Greed

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

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  Art, Philosophy, Giving

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• The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

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  Weekdays, Sake, Sabbath

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.26, Macmillan

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