Martin Buber Quotes About Empathy

Quotes about: Empathy

• When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

  Martin Buber

  Love, Two, People

  "Where is God in the Flood?" by Rabbi Avi Strausberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2017.

• In the beginning was the relationship.

  Martin Buber

  Empathy

• We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

  Martin Buber

  Empathy, Redeemed

  Martin Buber (2013). “Ten Rungs: Collected Hasidic Sayings”, p.64, Routledge

• 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.

  Martin Buber

  Light, Space, Empathy

• Man wishes to be confirmed in his being by man, and wishes to have a presence in the being of the other…. Secretly and bashfully he watches for a YES which allows him to be and which can come to him only from one human person to another.

  Martin Buber

  Men, Empathy, Wish

  Martin Buber, Judith Buber Agassi (1999). “Martin Buber on Psychology and Psychotherapy: Essays, Letters, and Dialogue”, p.16, Syracuse University Press

• All actual life is encounter.

  Martin Buber

  Empathy, Encounters, Life Is

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.82, eBookIt.com

• Feeling one "has"; love occurs.

  Martin Buber

  Empathy, Feelings

  Martin Buber (2013). “I and Thou”, p.88, eBookIt.com

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