"All actual life is encounter."
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"A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for."
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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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"Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament."
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"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."
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"One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves."
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"I shall teach you the best way to say Torah. You must cease to be aware of yourselves. You must be nothing but an ear that hears what the universe of the word is constantly saying within you. The moment you start hearing what you yourself are saying, YOU must stop."
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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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"Meet the world with the fullness of your being, and you shall meet God. Of you wish to believe, love."
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"All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him."
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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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"Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power."
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"If we had the power over the ends of the earth, it would not give us that fulfillment of existence which a quiet devoted relationship to nearby life can give us."
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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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"The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It."
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"Through the Thou a person becomes I."
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"Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love."
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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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"Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer."
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"Play is the exultation of the possible."
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