Meditation Services for Humanistic Jews (1976), p105
Love is no less lovely because we do not yet know the chemistry of feeling. Beauty is no less beautiful because we do not yet understand the physics of thought. Even the wonders of nature are no less wondrous because they have not yet revealed to us the secret of their evolution. If the experience of these mysteries fulfills us, what more is required?
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