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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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