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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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