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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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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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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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