When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.
Interpretation
Authentic interactions between people create a powerful connection akin to a divine energy.
This quote by Martin Buber emphasizes the importance of genuine human relationships. When two individuals engage with sincerity and authenticity, their connection transcends mere interaction and becomes a profound and almost spiritual experience, symbolized by the metaphor of electricity that flows between them, suggesting that such relationships are vital to our human experience.
In practice
In a speech on the importance of genuine connections in our personal lives.
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.
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.
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
The rotten apple spoils his companion.
Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.
We don't live in a world that nurtures and cares for Black girls like me. And if the world doesn't care about a Black girl like me, then what will happen to our Black babies who grow up to become Black children and Black adults?
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