In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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.
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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