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

The realer religion is, so much the more it means its own overcoming. It wills to cease to be the special domain "Religion" and wills to become life. It is concerned in the end not with specific religious acts, but with redemption from all that is specific.

To be old is a glorious thing when one has not unlearned what it means to begin, this old man had perhaps first learned it thoroughly in old age.

Alles wirkliche Leben ist Begegnung.