The Great Search Quotes

“Sometimes an I-Thou encounter changes our life, as it did for Buber and his wife. At other times it is brief and passing, like my encounter with Pushpa. But always it carries blessing with it and always it comes as pure grace. It is not created by us, says Buber, but by attentively “waiting” and being ready to receive the gift when it comes.24 We cannot produce I-Thou encounters, but we can prepare ourselves spiritually, through meditation, silence, and prayer, to be more open and ready to receive these encounters when they are given. And the only time and place to receive the gift of meeting the divine in one another is here and now, by being present to every moment and every encounter of life. It can be called the Now of Thou.”
― John Philip Newell, The Great Search: Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home