A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Martin Buber

Categorized in : Divine Individual Reaching

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we... by Martin Buber

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.

roaring ocean self

Through the Thou a person becomes I. by Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

persons

I have to tell it again and again: I have no doctrine. I only point out something. I point out reality, I point out something in reality which has not or too little been seen. I take him who listens to me at his hand and lead him to the window. I push open the window and point outside. I have no doctrine, I carry on a dialogue.

learning reality knowledge

God dwells wherever man lets Him in. by Martin Buber

God dwells wherever man lets Him in.

men

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy. by Martin Buber

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.

holy heart joy

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love po... by Martin Buber

Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

power-of-love diction life

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

paganism substance light

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world... by Martin Buber

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.

wicked praying world

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.

lucifer real reflection

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

empathy space light

Feeling one "has"; love occurs. by Martin Buber

Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

empathy feelings

The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention.... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing.

biblical angel men

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents th... by Martin Buber

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.

negativity return men

Creation happens to us, burns into us, changes us, we tremble and swoon, we submit. Creation - we participate in it, we encounter the creator, offer ourselves to him, helpers and companions.

creativity play inspirational

Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particularThou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. 164

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One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' Th... by Martin Buber

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.

my-own sake needs

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it

silence soul men

If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us.

earth quiet giving

Play is the exultation of the possible. by Martin Buber

Play is the exultation of the possible.

playing-games fun inspirational

He who desires to become aware of the hidden light must lift the feeling of fear up to its source. And he can accomplish this if he judges himself and all he does. For then he sheds all fears and lifts fear that has fallen down. But if he does not judge himself, he will be judged from on high, and this judgment will come upon him in the guise of countless things, and all the things in the world will become messengers of God who carry out the judgment on this man.

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