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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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