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All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. — Martin Buber

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. — Martin Buber

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. — Martin Buber

All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him. — Martin Buber

The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one's whole being. — Martin Buber

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda. — Martin Buber

The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history. — Martin Buber

Play is the exultation of the possible. — Martin Buber

Nothing so tends to mask the face of God as religion; it can be a substitute for God himself. — Martin Buber

The beating heart of the universe is holy joy. — Martin Buber

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say. — Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I. — Martin Buber

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). — Martin Buber

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. — Martin Buber

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. — Martin Buber

He who loves brings God and the World together. — Martin Buber

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament. — Martin Buber

Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons. — Martin Buber

Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning. — Martin Buber

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of one of its beings. — Martin Buber

To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover ... — Martin Buber

Every journey has a secret destination of which the traveller is unaware. — Martin Buber

Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love. — Martin Buber

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship? — Martin Buber

It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing. — Martin Buber

Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love. — Martin Buber

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another. — Martin Buber

The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid. — Martin Buber

We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too. — Martin Buber

If you cannot get across it, you must get across it, nevertheless. — Martin Buber

For God does not want to be believed in, to be debated and defended by us, but simply to be realized through us. — Martin Buber

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 — Martin Buber

Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return. — Martin Buber

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me — Martin Buber

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle. — Martin Buber

One eats in holiness and the table becomes an altar. Martin Buber — Sylvia Shaw Judson

The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It. — Martin Buber

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman — Martin Buber

It was from Buber's other writings that I learned what could also be found in I and Thou: the central commandment to make the secular sacred. — Martin Buber

And if there were a devil it would not be one who decided against God, but one who, in eternity, came to no decision. — Martin Buber

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. — Martin Buber

Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else. — Martin Buber

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way. — Martin Buber

Rabbi Heshel said: "A man should be like a vessel that willingly receives what its owner pours into it, whether it be wine or vinegar. — Martin Buber

In the beginning was the relationship. — Martin Buber

On a higher level we find fictions that men eagerly believe, regardless of the evidence, because they gratify some wish. — Martin Buber

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves. — Martin Buber

The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now - or, as Buber puts it, in the present. — Martin Buber

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. — Martin Buber

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God. — Martin Buber

Solitude is the place of purification. — Martin Buber

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to! — Martin Buber

One who truly meets the world goes out also to God. — Martin Buber

All real living is meeting. — Martin Buber

I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found. — Martin Buber

Whoever says You does not have something; he has nothing. But he stands in relation. — Martin Buber

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. — Martin Buber

We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring. — Martin Buber

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). — Martin Buber

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for. — Martin Buber

The future stands in need of you in order to be born. — Martin Buber

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique. — Martin Buber

It pains me to speak of God in the third person. — Martin Buber

This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form ... — Martin Buber

I'm not sure I can take your advice. You are dealing with English Gentlemen. We are dealing with monsters. — Martin Buber

Feelings are 'entertained'; love comes to pass. Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. — Martin Buber

All actual life is encounter. — Martin Buber

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity. — Martin Buber

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. — Martin Buber

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them. — Martin Buber

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings. — Martin Buber

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself. — Martin Buber

One need ask only 'What for? What am I to unify my being for?' The reply is: Not for my own sake. — Martin Buber

True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past. — Martin Buber

Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself. — Martin Buber

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth. — Martin Buber

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves. — Martin Buber

To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin. — Martin Buber

Feeling one "has"; love occurs. — Martin Buber

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change. — Martin Buber

Egos appear by setting themselves apart from other egos. — Martin Buber

Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred. — Martin Buber

What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them. — Martin Buber

When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man. — Martin Buber

Martin Buber said, 'All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. — Frances Mayes

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya? — Martin Buber

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them. — Martin Buber

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. — Martin Buber

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes. — Martin Buber

You should carefully observe the way toward which your heart draws you, then choose this way with all your strength. — Martin Buber

So long as you "have" yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things. — Martin Buber

As I actualize, I uncover. — Martin Buber

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself. — Martin Buber

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.. — Martin Buber

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment. — Martin Buber

The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine. — Martin Buber