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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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