Quote from "Kahlil Gibran"

Quote from "Kahlil Gibran"
But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires

Friday, September 22, 2006

I and Thou

The following is a excerpt from a book I am reading and I would like to share it with you, it is in coalition with a speech communications class that I am taking and I can't begin to tell you how insightful and great this class is.

"If I FACE A HUMAN BEING AS MY THOU, and I say the primary word I-Thou to him, he is not a thing among things, and does not consist of things.

Thus human being is not He or She, bounded from every other He and She, and a specific point in space and time within the net of the world; nor is he a nature able to be experienced and described, a loose bundle of named qualities. But with no neighbor, and whole within himself, he is the Thou that fills the heavens. This does not mean that nothing exists except himself. But all else lives in his light."

I recommend that this book be read, but hey, that's just me

1 comment:

Blu Jewel said...

What in interesting perspective. I'll be sure to check it out in further detail. Thanks for sharing.