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.
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.
There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.
The depth of this conflict, which is more than one hundred years old, requires us to find a way to communicate... so that the residents of the Middle East, Jews and Arabs alike, can live not as if they were forced to live together, but rather destined to live together.
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