Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur 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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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