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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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