The I Of The Basic Word I-thou

I Have Learned A New Form Of Service From The Wars Of Frederick, King Of Prussia. It Is Not Necessary To Approach The Enemy In Order To Attack Him. In Fleeing From Him, It Is Possible To Circumvent Him As He Advances And Fall On Him From The Rear And Force Him To Surrender. What Is Needed Is Not To Strike Straight At Evil But To Withdraw To The Sources Of Divine Power, And From There To Circle Around Evil, Bend It And Transform It Into Its Opposite.

Through The Thou A Person Becomes I.

To Be Old Can Be Glorious If One Has Not Unlearned How To Begin.

What Has To Be Given Up Is Not The I, But That Drive For Self-affirmation Which Impels Man To Flee From The Unreliable, Unsolid, Unlasting, Unpredictable, Dangerous World Of Relation Into The Having Of Things.

Every Person Born Into The World Represents Something New, Something That Never Existed Before, Something Original And Unique....if There Had Been Someone Like Her In The World, There Would Have Been No Need For Her To Be Born." --martin Buber As Quoted In Narrative Means For Sober Ends, By Jon Diamond, P.78