Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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