Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes About Goals

Quotes about: Goals

• 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. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Life, Spiritual, Morning

• There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Space, Giving, Goal

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

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

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Healing, Goal

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

• It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal. It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Freedom, Goal, Being Free

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.18, Macmillan

• 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.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Spiritual, Adventure, Goal

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

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