Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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