The most beautiful life that has been imagined is the life of the knight Don Quixote who created danger where he did not find it. But more beautiful … - Martin Buber

The world in which you live, just as it is and not otherwise, affords you that association with God, which will redeem you and whatever divine aspect of the world you have been entrusted with. And your own character, the very qualities which make you what you are, constitutes your special approach to God, your special potential use for Him.

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?

In order to speak to the world what I have heard, I am not bound to step into the street. I may remain standing in the door of my ancestral house. …