New Delhi, June 3 -- Quote of the day by Abraham Joshua Heschel: 'Life goes wrong when the control of space. becomes our sole concern' - life lessons on time, meaning, simplicity and the danger of living only for possessions

Abraham Joshua Heschel's quote, "Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern," is a profound warning against reducing life to ownership, power and material control.

The line comes from Heschel's classic work The Sabbath, where he contrasts the world of space - things, property, control - with the world of time - being, sharing, rest, meaning and sacred attention.

The quote appears in the prologue of The Sabbath, where Heschel writes that there is a realm o...