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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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.
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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 become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
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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