Heschel thought that people are taking the world for…
Heschel thought that people are taking the world for granted, thereby losing their ability to experience it with the death and reverence.
— from The Landing (Death) · Wonderstuck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think by Helen De Cruz
In the book
Meet ordinary moments as if they were the last of their kind. Try to treat each experience with the reverence you would give it if you knew it would never come again. The danger, as Heschel warned, is that we take the whole world for granted and so lose the very power to feel it with awe and reverence; the cure is to pay deliberate attention to things of beauty. William Blake said it best: the man who binds himself to a joy destroys it, but the man who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sunrise. — The Landing (Death)
Also belongs to
- The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)
- The Mind in the Cockpit
- The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)