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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.

Abraham Joshua Heschel
Ideas, Talent, Capacity
Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.227, Macmillan
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don't be old. Don't be stale.