“This is the secret of the spirit, not disclosed to reason: the adaptation of the mind to what is sacred, intellectual humility in the presence of the supreme. The mind surrenders to the mystery of spirit, not in resignation but in love.” ReasonTruthSpiritReligionFaithMysterySacredIntellectual Humility Book:Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God Source: Thunder in the Soul: To Be Known By God
“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. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.” WayRealityGivenWonderMysteryHonestRegardResponseFinalsGrantedRadicalConfrontationGrandeurAmazement Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.” WonderMysteryDivinePrayingMarginsAttainment Book:Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays Source: Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
“One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.” WorldUseTodaySpiritPrayerForgetWonderMysteryAwarenessBrokenEssentialsApproachMajorsToolsTragedyCrisisOur TimeOur WorldWord Of GodReverenceSensitivitySymptomsVesselWorld TodayPrerequisites Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.” MenWayMomentsCertainAnswersConsciousnessMysteryAwarenessGratitudeBuiltGrandeurCompatibleOwingReciprocateIndebtedness Author:Abraham Joshua Heschel
“Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme. Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine. ... to sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal. What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.” WorldFeelsSimpleCommonMysteryDivineEternalAll ThingsDignityUltimateIntuitionSupremePassingPassingsRealizationPerceiveAnalysisAweStillnessTranscendence Book:I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology Source: I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
“The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time. 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.” WorldTryingTurnsSpaceResultsMysteryWeekShareCreationSixEternalTyrannyCelebrateHolinessSabbathCreation Of The World Book:The Sabbath Source: The Sabbath
