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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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