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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
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
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Confrontation Grandeur Honest Response Transcend
Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Awe Everything Mystery Reference Sense Transcendence
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Experiment Friendship Mentality Puzzle Syllogistic
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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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness

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