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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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