Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHe who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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