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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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