Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in th…

Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, p.45 … ▶
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). Insecurity of Freedom, p.4, Macmillan
...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, bu … ▶

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. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

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