Martin Buber Quotes
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The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
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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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It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.
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But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate the tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an It. . . . Does the tree then have consciousness, similar to our own? I have no experience of that. But thinking that you have brought this off in your own case, must you again divide the indivisible? What I encounter is neither the soul of a tree nor a dryad, but the tree itself.
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Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
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Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
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Feeling one "has"; love occurs.
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The philosophical anthropologist ... can know the wholeness of the person and through it the wholeness of man only when he does not leave his subjectivity out and does not remain an untouched observer.
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Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
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The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
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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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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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The salvation of man does not lie in his holding himself far removed from the worldly, but in consecrating it to holy, to divine meaning.
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Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing
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How would man exist if God did not need him, and how would you exist? You need God in order to be, and God needs you - for that is the meaning of your life.
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I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
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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 basic word I-Thou can be spoken only with one's whole being. The concentration and fusion into a whole being can never be accomplished by me, can never be accomplished without me. I require a Thou to become; becoming I, I say Thou.
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We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
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So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.
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God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
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I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
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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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We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
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Solitude is the place of purification.
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One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.
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Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.
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Every person born into the world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique....If there had been someone like her in the world, there would have been no need for her to be born." --Martin Buber as quoted in Narrative Means for Sober Ends, by Jon Diamond, p.78
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Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.
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