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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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