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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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