Play is the exultation of the possible.
Interpretation
Play represents the joy and freedom found in exploring potential and possibilities.
In this quote, Martin Buber expresses the idea that play is a joyous celebration of what can be achieved, emphasizing the significance of creativity and imagination in human experience. Through play, individuals engage with their potential and explore the boundaries of possibility, ultimately fostering a sense of freedom and joy in life.
In practice
A teacher might use this quote to inspire students to embrace their creativity during art projects.
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.
There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
It is usual to think of good and evil as two poles, two opposite directions, the antithesis of one another...We must begin by doing away with this convention.
God dwells wherever man lets Him in.
Feelings dwell in man; but man dwells in his love. That is no metaphor, but the actual truth. Love does not cling to the I in such a way as to have the Thou only for its " content," its object; but love is between I and Thou. The man who does not know this, with his very being know this, does not know love; even though he ascribes to it the feelings he lives through, experiences, enjoys, and expresses.
Are you not scared by seeing that the gypsies are more attractive to us than the apostles?
Life and Jah are one in the same. Jah is the gift of existence. I am in some way eternal, I will never be duplicated. The singularity of every man and woman is Jah's gift. What we struggle to make of it is our sole gift to Jah. The process of what that struggle becomes, in time, the Truth.
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
Evil is license, and that is why it is monotonous: everything has to be drawn from ourselves. One is condemned to false infinity. That is hell itself.
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
Instead of blaming victimization on the victims, the Gospels blame it on the victimizers. What the myths systematically hide, the Bible reveals.
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