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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder, 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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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