Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLife is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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