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As I actualize, I uncover.
All real living is meeting.
All actual life is encounter.
Feeling one "has"; love occurs.
God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
Through the Thou a person becomes I.
In the beginning was the relationship.
Solitude is the place of purification.
Play is the exultation of the possible.
The beating heart of the universe is holy joy.
He who loves brings God and the World together.
It pains me to speak of God in the third person.
One who truly meets the world goes out also to God.
Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived.
The future stands in need of you in order to be born.
Without being and remaining oneself, there is no love.
Power abdicates only under the stress of counter-power.
There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!
The tradition of the camp fire faces that of the pyramid.
An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Persons appear by entering into relation to other persons.
Everyone has in him something precious that is in no one else.
Our relationships live in the space between us which is sacred.
To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.
Creation is not a hurdle on the road to God, it is the road itself.
The prophet is appointed to oppose the kind, and even more: history.
We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.
Let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.
To produce is to draw forth, to invent is to find, to shape is to discover.
The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.
We may listen to our inner self-and still not know which ocean we hear roaring.
The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.
It is not the nature of the task, but its consecration, that is the vital thing.
We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.
To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.
Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
When I meet a man, I am not concerned about his opinions. I am concerned about the man.
Freedom and destiny are solemnly promised to one another and linked together in meaning.
I don't like religion much, and I am glad that in the Bible the word is not to be found.
God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?
If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman
We should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.
This is the sacrifice: the endless possibility that is offered up on the altar of the form.