Nothing Can Doom Man But

I Do, Indeed, Close My Door At Times And Surrender Myself To A Book, But Only Because I Can Open The Door Again And See A Human Face Looking At Me.

I Do Not Accept Any Absolute Formulas For Living. No Preconceived Code Can See Ahead To Everything That Can Happen In A Man's Life. As We Live, We Grow And Our Beliefs Change. They Must Change. So I Think We Should Live With This Constant Discovery. We Should Be Open To This Adventure In Heightened Awareness Of Living. We Should Stake Our Whole Existence On Our Willingness To Explore And Experience.

The I Of The Basic Word I-thou Is Different From That Of The Basic Word I-it.

But It Can Also Happen, If Will And Grace Are Joined, That As I Contemplate The Tree I Am Drawn Into A Relation, And The Tree Ceases To Be An It. . . . Does The Tree Then Have Consciousness, Similar To Our Own? I Have No Experience Of That. But Thinking That You Have Brought This Off In Your Own Case, Must You Again Divide The Indivisible? What I Encounter Is Neither The Soul Of A Tree Nor A Dryad, But The Tree Itself.

To Begin With Oneself But Not To End With Onself. To Start From Oneself But Not To Aim At Oneself.