The world is not divine sport, it is divine destiny. There is a divine meaning of the world, of man, of human persons, of you and me.

He who loves brings God and the World together.

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing among things nor does he consist of things. He is no longer He or She, a dot in the world grid of space and time, nor a condition to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. Neighborless and seamless, he is Thou and fills the firmament. Not as if there were nothing but he; but everything else lives in his light.

The I of the basic word I-Thou is different from that of the basic word I-It.

Only men who are capable of saying Thou [an attitude of deep respect] to one another can truly say we with one another.