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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Animate Being Divine Margin Mystery Notice Praying Sense Wonder
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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Common Eternal Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
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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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
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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Analysis Dignity Intuition Realization Simple Stand
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
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.
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Care Faith Inner Open Solicitude Wonder
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Celebrate Meaning Sabbath Six Space Time Trying Tyranny Week
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Alert Greed Heart Jealousy Man Relishing Stillness
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Awareness Companionship Divine Faith God Man Mind Mutuality Quality
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
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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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Endlessly Exclusive Given Hour Moment Two Unique Years

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