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

To look away from the world, or to stare at it, does not help a man to reach God; but he who sees the world in Him stands in His presence.

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.

We can learn to be whole by saying what we mean and doing what we say.

Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity.

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

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?