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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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