I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology by Samuel H. Dresner

Author:Samuel H. Dresner [Dresner, Samuel H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780824505424
Amazon: 0824505425
Barnesnoble: 0824505425
Published: 2018-08-03T13:08:04+00:00

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\Ilile we do not otncially define old age as a sn.-ond childhood ! some of the programs we de\ise are highly effecti\·e in helping the aged to b\!.—ome children … . �ow preoccupation ,,;th games and hobbies ! the overemphasis on recreation ! while certainly conduci\·e w boredom

temporarily! hardly contribute to inner strength . The effect is: rather! a pickled existence: preserved in brine v.ith spices.

Is this the goal of existence : to study! grow: toil ! mature!

and to reach the age of retirement in order to li\·e like a child?

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:P-Jtentially \ise: where the pl.ll“‘X)se of le211ling is not a career: but where the purpose of learning is

itself.

The goal is not to keep

man busy: but to remind

him that every moment is an

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�tL.�e2tion is at least as important as hobbies and recreation .

Always

It takes three things to attain a sense of significant being:

God

A Soul

And a Moment.

And the three are always here.

To Be

Just to be is a blessing.

Just to live is holy.

To Ohey

What Adam hears first is a command.

Against the conception of the world as something just here, the Bible insists that the world is creation. Over all being stand the words: Let there be! And there was, and there is.

To be is to obey the commandment of creation . God’s word is at stake in being. There is a cosmic piety in sheer being .

What is endures as a response to a command.

The Pious Man

Piety is the direct opposite of selfishness. Living as he does in the vision of the unutterably pure, the pious man turns his back on his own human vanity, and longs to surrender the 65

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