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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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 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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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