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.

-Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Awe Is An Intuition For The Dignity

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.

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The Anchor Of Meaning Resides In An Abyss, Deeper Than The Reach Of Despair. Yet The Abyss Is Not Not Infinite; Its Bottom May Suddenly Be Discovered Within The Confines Of A Human Heart Or Under The Debris Of Might Doubts. This May Be The Vocation Of Man: To Say "amen" To Being And To The Author Of Being; To Live In Defiance Of Absurdity, Notwithstanding Futility And Defeat; To Attain Faith In God Even In Spite Of God.

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