When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire…

Abraham Joshua Heschel
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind 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 hidd … ▶
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. ✨ … ▶
Every little deed counts. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.412, Macmillan
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays, p.76, Macmillan

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