"You hem me in behind and before."

"In the spirit of Judaism, our quest for God is a return to God; our thinking of Him is a recall, an attempt to draw out the depth of our suppressed attachment. The Hebrew word for repentance, teshuvah (I've been OBSESSED with this word lately...) means 'return'. Yet it also means answer. Return to God is an answer to Him. For God is not silent. 'Return, O faithless, children says the Lord.' (Jer 3:14) According to the understanding of the Rabbis, daily, at all times, 'A voice cries: in the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God' (Isaiah 40:3)... The most precious gifts come to us unawares and remain un-noted. God's grace resounds in our lives like a staccato. Only by retaining the seemingly disconnected notes do we acquire the ability to grasp the theme."

-Abraham Joshua Heschel 

I definitely just ordered this photograph (my favorite of him) blown up for my office. I just love his face here. It's like he knows something... and he so freaking often DOES.