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Martin Buber

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An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.


— Martin Buber


#eyes #great #language #power #speak

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.


— Martin Buber


#inspirational

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.


— Martin Buber


#man #religion #religion

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.


— Martin Buber


#hope #insignt #recovery #redemption #recovery

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?


— Martin Buber


#death

All actual life is encounter.


— Martin Buber


#life

Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.


— Martin Buber


#dialog #dialogic #evil #good #i-thou

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.


— Martin Buber


#cannot #conflict #his #just #man

Solitude is the place of purification.


— Martin Buber


#solitude

God wants man to fulfill his commands as a human being and with the quality peculiar to human beings.


— Martin Buber


#beings #commands #fulfill #god #his






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Brit Shalom and the bi-national solution
Already in the early 1920s Martin Buber started advocating a binational Jewish-Arab state stating that the Jewish people should proclaim "its desire to live in peace and brotherhood with the Arab people and to develop the common homeland into a republic in which both peoples will have the possibility of free development". Partners can then become empathic witnesses to each others wounds and early unmet needs. In 1952 he argued with Jung over the existence of God.

They had two children: a son Rafael Buber and a daughter Eva Strauss-Steinitz. In 1923 Buber wrote his famous essay on existence Ich und Du (later translated into English as I and Thou) and in 1925 he began translating the Hebrew Bible into the German language.

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