Sunday, December 11, 2011

"The Meaning of That Waiting... Will Dawn Upon You"

"In the eyes of him who takes his stand in love, and gazes out of it, men are cut free from their entanglement in bustling activity. Good people and evil, wise and foolish, beautiful and ugly, become successively real to him; that is, set free they step forth in their singleness, and confront him as Thou...

"Love is responsibility of an I for a Thou. In this lies the likeness - impossible of any feeling whatsoever - of all who love, from the smallest to the greatest and from the blessedly protected man, whose life is rounded in that of a loved being, to him who is all his life nailed to the cross of the world, and who ventures to bring himself to the dreadful point - to love all men...

"Believe in the simple magic of life, in service in the universe, and the meaning of that waiting, that alertness, that 'craning of the neck' in creatures will dawn upon you. Every word would falsify; but look! round about you beings live their life, and to whatever point you turn you come upon being." - Martin Buber, I and Thou

I never thought a German philosopher could make me cry, but there you have it - the writing is so beautiful, so profound, I cannot help it.  It washes all of the dust and dirt out of my clouded vision to see the world through the freshness of the air right after it rains... The reflection of the world can be seen in the raindrops still standing on the leaves of trees and flowers which soaked in the nourishing liquid and now give back to the earth in whispers of Grace, and I am deeply touched.

2 comments:

Elisabeth said...

....I second that:)

Dan Erickson said...

Wow- I would have just said it was important to notice people as individuals, but he makes it so you really want to go out and find someone to love like this.