Heschel’s Wonder-1/24/2022

You Stand

The way to prayer leads through acts of wonder and radical amazement. The illusion of total intelligibility, the indifference to the mystery that is everywhere, the foolishness of ultimate self-reliance are serious obstacles on the way. It is in moments of our being faced with the mystery of living and dying, of knowing and not-knowing, of love and the inability of love – that we pray, that we address ourselves to Him who is beyond the mystery.

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