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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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