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.

I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As we live, we grow and our beliefs change. They must change. So I think we should live with this constant discovery. We should be open to this adventure in heightened awareness of living. We should stake our whole existence on our willingness to explore and experience.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

One must be truly able to say I in order to know the mystery of the Thou in its whole truth.

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God - such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing

To him who knows how to read the legend, it conveys more truth than the chronicle.

If a person kills a tree before its time, it is like having murdered a soul.-Rabbi Nachman