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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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