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 HESCHELAwareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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By the word of God the world was created.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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