We Can Learn To Be Whole By

This Is The Risk: The Primary Word Can Only Be Spoken With The Whole Being. He Who Gives Himself To It May Withhold Nothing Of Himself.

But When A Man Draws A Lifeless Thing Into His Passionate Longing For Dialogue, Lending It Independence And As It Were A Soul, Then There May Dawn In Him The Presentiment Of A World-wide Dialogue With The World-happening That Steps Up To Him Even In His Environment, Which Consists Partially Of Things. Or Do You Seriously Think That The Giving And Taking Of Signs Halts On The Threshold Of That Business Where An Honest And Open Spirit Is Found?

The Basic Word I-thou Can Be Spoken Only With One's Whole Being. The Concentration And Fusion Into A Whole Being Can Never Be Accomplished By Me, Can Never Be Accomplished Without Me. I Require A Thou To Become; Becoming I, I Say Thou.

The Biblical Passage Which Says Of Abraham And The Three Visiting Angels: "and He Stood Over Them Under The Tree And They Did Eat" Is Interpreted By Rabbi Zusya To The Effect That Man Stands Above The Angels, Because He Knows Something Unknown To Them, Namely, That Eating May Be Hallowed By The Eater's Intention.... Any Natural Act, If Hallowed, Leads To God, And Nature Needs Man For What No Angel Can Perform On It, Namely, Its Hallowing.

If We Had The Power Over The Ends Of The Earth, It Would Not Give Us That Fulfillment Of Existence Which A Quiet Devoted Relationship To Nearby Life Can Give Us.