Abraham Heschel, in his classic meditation on time, The Sabbath, wrote: We are all infatuated with the splendour of space, with the grandeur of things of space. Thing is a category that lies heavy on our minds, tyrannizing all our thoughts … Reality to us is thinghood, consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact. This is obvious in our understanding of time, which, being thingless and insubstantial, appears to us as if it had
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