Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMuch of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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