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.
I'd like to think that, when I explain it, that Mr. Trump will understand marriage is defined by two people who love each other, commit to each other, and will care for each other through thick and thin.
At the most basic level, therefore, secure attachments in both childhood and adulthood are established by two individual's sharing a nonverbal focus on the energy flow (emotional states) and a verbal focus on the information-processing aspects (representational processes of memory and narrative) of mental life. The matter of the mind matters for secure attachments.
I just always knew that I lived in two worlds. There was the world of my house and community, but to make my way in that white world I had to modify the way I spoke and acted. I had to sometimes not make direct eye contact.
Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.
All black women aren't sassy, loud, difficult, or subservient. We are, in fact, very complex and very diverse, living very complex and diverse lives. That point cannot be made enough.
You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.
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