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Being is not just a fact or a thing. Being fills us with wonder for there is an “immense preciousness of being,” says Rabbi Heschel, which “is not an object of analysis but a cause of wonder.” Heschel asks: “Who lit the wonder before our eyes and the wonder of our eyes?” We become struck by an “unmitigated wonder” and we ask about the universe: “Who could believe it? Who could conceive it?” And “How shall we ever reciprocate for breathing and thinking, for sight and hearing, for love and achievement?” Because of being, an “awareness of the divine…intrudes first as a sense of wonder.”

Einstein concurs when he says: “There is no true science which does not emanate from the mysterious. Every thinking person must be filled with wonder and awe just by looking up at the stars.” Awe moves us beyond knowledge to wisdom. Aquinas observes that what the scientist, the poet and the philosopher all share in common is this: Each “is concerned with the marvelous.” Indeed, “amazement (admiratio) is the beginning of philosophy and science” and “one meditates on creation in order to view and marvel at divine wisdom.”