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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. we use words as tools. we forget that words are a repository of the spirit. the tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. we cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. by the word of god the world was created.

-Abraham Joshua Heschel

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One Of The Major Symptoms Of The

Abraham Joshua Heschel

One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. we use words as tools. we forget that words are a repository of the spirit. the tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. we cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. by the word of god the world was created.

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I'm even stunned at some of the majors you can get in college these days. like you can major in the mating habits of the australian rabbit bat, major in leisure studies... okay, get a journalism major. okay, education major, journalism major. right. philosophy major, right. archeology major. i don't know, whatever it is. major in ballroom dance, of course. it doesn't replace work. how about a major in film studies? how about a major in black studies? how about a major in women studies? how about a major in home ec? oops, sorry! no such thing.

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent if the unheard, unspoken word is unspoken, unheard; still is the spoken word, the word unheard, the word without a word, the word within the world and for the world; and the light shone in the darkness and against the word the unstilled world still whirled about the center of the silent word. oh my people, what have i done unto thee. where shall the word be found, where shall the word resound? not here, there is not enough silence

But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more than obscurity can be applied to light. ... mystery is the antagonist of truth. it is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion. truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Prayer is first of all listening to god. it's openness. god is always speaking; he's always doing something. prayer is to enter into that activity... convert your thoughts into prayer. as we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer. the difference is not that prayer is thinking about other things, but that prayer is thinking in dialogue,... a conversation with god.

Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. as the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. satan's strategems against prayer are three. first, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. if that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. and, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

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