Martin Buber Quotes About Empathy
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Feeling one "has"; love occurs.
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We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
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All actual life is encounter.
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When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.
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When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
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In the beginning was the relationship.
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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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