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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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Martin Buber
Age: 87 †
Born: 1878
Born: February 8
Died: 1965
Died: June 13
Bible Translator
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Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.
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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 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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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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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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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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Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
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No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
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All real living is meeting.
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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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Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
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God is the mysterium tremendum, that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.
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In the beginning was the relationship.
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Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
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Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
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The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
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This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.
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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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All actual life is encounter.
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The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
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