"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."

-- Abraham Joshua Heschel

#Real Quotes #Men Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”
“We do not need an imported system for falsifying elections! We will create our own, one run by the state!”
“I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.”
“And mothers are usually quite trustworthy, as long as your their son. Otherwise look out!”
“According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.”
“Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.”
“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
“Value our lives because we never know what day or what time itll be over, ... Rich, famous, whatever, it just makes you appreciate just seeing today.”

Source : "Aaliyah: A 'beautiful person's' life cut short", www.cnn.com. August 27, 2001.

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