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If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
Martin Buber
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Martin Buber
Age: 87 †
Born: 1878
Born: February 8
Died: 1965
Died: June 13
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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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The law is not thrust upon man it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
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Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
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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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When a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
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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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There is something that can be found in one place. It is a great treasure which may be called the fulfillment of existence. The place where this treasure can be found is the place where one stands
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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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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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In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility it demands you.
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Feeling one has love occurs.
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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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God made so many different kinds of people why would God allow only one way to worship?
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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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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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Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
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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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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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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
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