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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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 a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
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
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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