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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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