Where man meets the world, not with the tools he has made but with the soul with which he was born; not like a hunter who seeks his prey but like a love to reciprocate love; where man and matter meet as equals before the mystery, both made, maintained and destined to pass away, it is not an object, a thing that is given to his sense, but a state of fellowship that embraces him and all things; not a particular fact but the startling situation that there are facts at all; being; the presence of a universe; the unfolding of time. The sense of the ineffable does not stand between man and mystery; rather than shutting him out of it, it brings him together with it.
Man is Not Alone; Abraham Joshua Heschel; p. 38
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