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Wonder, 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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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.
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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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