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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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