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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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