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Play is the exultation of the possible.

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Martin Buber
Age: 87 †
Born: 1878
Born: February 8
Died: 1965
Died: June 13
Bible Translator
Educator
Existentialist
Literary Editor
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Vienna
Austria
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Exultation
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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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Read the Bible as though it were something entirely unfamiliar, as though it had not been set before you ready-made. Face the book with a new attitude as something new.
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The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
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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 must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.
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We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
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No purpose intervenes between I and You, no greed and no anticipation and longing itself is changed as it plunges from the dream into appearance. Every means is an obstacle. Only where all means have disintegrated encounters occur.
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What you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.
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The future stands in need of you in order to be born.
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When a man has made peace within himself, he will be able to make peace in the whole world.
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A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).
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The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.
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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
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The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.
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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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God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
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You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight.
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In the beginning was the relationship.
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What is it that is eternal: the primal phenomenon, present in the here and now, of what we call revelation? It is man's emerging from the moment of the supreme encounter, being no longer the same as he was when entering into it.
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And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision.
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