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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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