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Yep. Why do we treat the world as a marketplace? Because we've lost that sense of awe. Nature is something to conquer and exploit, no longer something to look at with a sense of awe as the psalmists did.
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Idle musings by a once again bookseller, always bibliophile, current copyeditor and proofreader. Complete with ramblings about biblical studies, the ancient Near East, bicycling, gardening, or anything else I am reading (or experiencing). All more or less live from Red Wing, MN
Wednesday, December 06, 2023
Don't let your sense of awe decrease!
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you. The loss of awe is the avoidance of insight. A return to reverence is the first prerequisite for a revival of wisdom, for the discovery of the world as an allusion to God.—Abraham Joshua Heschel, Who Is Man? (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965), 88–89, as quoted here.
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