But a person, I would say, is an individual living really with the world. And 'with' the world, I don't mean in the world- just in real contact, in real reciprocity with the world in all the points in which the world can meet man.

Martin Buber
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  1. From the moment you realize, ‘I am the most worthless person in this world’; you become valuable. - Dada Bhagwan

  2. No matter what the other person says, then take the bottom line out of it, everything in this world is ‘vyavasthit’ [result of scientific circumstantial evidences]. So don’t tell anyone, ‘you did wrong’. Not only should you not say this, you should not even think... - Dada Bhagwan

  3. To discover the exact location of a 'thing' is a simple matter of factual research. To discover the exact location of a person: where to locate the self? - Nadine Gordimer

  4. A True man only knows value of real person - Raghava

  5. The potential that every person has is not his possession - Sunday Adelaja

More Quotes By Martin Buber
  1. The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

  2. All actual life is encounter.

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

  4. Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

  5. A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.

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