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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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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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