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Martin Buber Inspirational Quotes (81)

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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.
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If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
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One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake.
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Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
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Feeling one has love occurs.
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Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
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All actual life is encounter.
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Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.
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I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop.
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To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
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We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world we should love them too.
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As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl of doom congeals.
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Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos.Persons appear byentering into relationwith other persons.
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You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven
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There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.
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The law is not thrust upon man it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
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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.
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There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
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I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters.
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What has to be given up is not the I, as most mystics suppose: this I is indispensable for any relationship, including the highest, which always presupposes an I and You.
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God made so many different kinds of people why would God allow only one way to worship?
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Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
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I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.
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The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).
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