Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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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 beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of 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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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