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A soul can create only when alone.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
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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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.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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.
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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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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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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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