There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.
Interpretation
Humility is essential for a genuine connection with God.
This quote by Martin Buber emphasizes the importance of humility in a person's spiritual journey. It suggests that when someone is consumed by their own ego and self-importance, they leave no space for a relationship with the divine, as true spirituality requires an openness and surrender to something greater than oneself.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a religious sermon focused on the importance of humility in spiritual life.
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.
Play is the exultation of the possible.
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.
To be able to function in late capitalism without being a psychological wreck, it is necessary to accept the insane as standard.
There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.
You can't lead a true life without suffering
Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.
I had a thought, on the way home from the rock field, that the things we don't know about a person are the things that make them human, and it made me feel sad to think that, but sad in that reassuring way that some sadness has, a sadness that says welcome home in twelve different languages.
Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.
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