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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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