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If a person has one thought, but an infinite one, he can be borne along by it throughout his entire life, lightly and on wings.         – Soren Kierkegaard

Neither My heavens nor My earth embrace Me, but the heart of My believing servant does embrace me.    -Hadith Qudsi

I have shown you that the intellect which emanates from God unto us is the link that joins us to God. You have it in your power to strengthen that bond, if you choose to do so, or to weaken it gradually, till it breaks if you prefer this. It will only become strong when you employ it in the love of God, and seek that love.      -Moses Maimonides
 
Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.      -Meister Eckhart
 
Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?     -Isaiah 40:26
 
The kindness and special quality in G-d’s making man upright, to walk erectly, is that though he walks on the earth he sees the Heavens; not so with beasts that go on all fours; they see only the earth.    -Tzemach Tzedek
 
Two things fill my mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily reflection is occupied with them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me. – Immanuel Kant
 
Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.  -Plato
 
Kneel down, kneel down, and wonder.  -William Shakespeare
 
If one feels wonder from the multiplicity and versatility of creation, God’s Simple Unity can then be seen shining in all the details of the world. -Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe
 
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me. -Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel