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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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Inspirational
Play
Exultation

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There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.
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All actual life is encounter.
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
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God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
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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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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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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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To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.
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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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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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To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
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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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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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We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
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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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The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
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In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.
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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
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This is the risk: the primary word can only be spoken with the whole being. He who gives himself to it may withhold nothing of himself.
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