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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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