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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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