Spirit is not in the I but between I and You. - Martin Buber

So long as you “have” yourself, have yourself as an object, your experience of man is only as of a thing among things.

"Feeling one "has"; love occurs."

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?