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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic

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