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Deepen connections with the people you love. Build relationships with the people you meet.
"We can go through each day—or a lifetime—as sleepwalkers while awake, tossing and turning on pillows that are as hard as appointment books, wandering a paved spiritual wilderness from bank window to house of worship to hospital bedside. But if we are fortunate enough to happen upon a vision of the Divine—in a chance chat with a semi-stranger or a lingering conversation with a good friend—we can awaken to the spirituality between people that Martin Buber called I-Thou."
—from God in Our Relationships
It is possible to infuse every moment of life with meaning—from the routine act to the once-in-a-lifetime situation—and this first-of-its-kind introduction to Martin Buber's I-Thou shows you how.
Drawing on Jewish tradition, the science of human behavior, Buber's ideas and the Hasidic stories that he loved, Rabbi Dennis Ross illuminates a theology of relationships in easy-to-understand, accessible language. You will clearly see how to use the principles of I-Thou to create new answers to critical issues in life, such as:
How do I react to others in times of stress?
How do I relate to strangers?
How can I take full advantage of the time I have to spend with my loved ones?
By unlocking the depths in Buber's concepts for spiritual growth, Ross supplies you with the tools you need to communicate better, love more completely and find the sacred in everyday life.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Our Daily Encounters
Always Unexpected
From I-It Experience to I-Thou Encounter
Some Differences between I-It and I-Thou
Buber's Theology of Relationships
I-It: The Cradle of I-Thou
I-It and I-Thou in Professional and Helping Relationships
I-It: Limited and Seductive
I-It Darkens and Hardens
Part Two: I-It: A Spirit in Eclipse—Seven Stories
Eclipsed by the Race
Eclipsed by the Equipment
Eclipsed by the Pace
Eclipsed by Itself
Eclipsed by Possessions
Eclipsed by the Past
One Voice Lifts Another
The Afterglow
Part Three: I-Thou: When One Voice Lifts Another
Chance Encounter
Voices Rise between People
Rising Voices Are Transcendent
Rising Voices Obscure Time, Space, and Cause
Voices Rise Here and Now
Rising Voices: Unpredictable, Arriving by Grace, and Unique
Rising Voices: A Capella and Accompanied
Rising Voices Leave an Afterglow
Part Four: I-Thou on the Narrow Ridge
Risk
Mismeeting, Blurring, Oscillation, and Enrichment
The Narrow Ridge
Growing into I-Thou
Over and Against
The New Thinking
Imagine the Real
Community, Strife, and Holy Insecurity
The Last Row
Part Five: Eternal Thou: A Leap of Faith
Entering the Eternal
I-Thou: Delicate and Eternal
All Living Is Meeting
Eternal Thou
Eternal Thou: Jewish Roots
The Jewish Mystical Tradition
Urgency
Becoming the Master
Epilogue: At Day's End
Notes
Further Reading
