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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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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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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.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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