by Kolbitar » April 5th, 2008, 9:00 pm
Jrose, I wish we could see things *in relation* to God, which is what I think Buber is saying (though I could be wrong).
I'm reminded of an experience by Raissa Maritain:
“ It happened that by a sudden intuition I experienced the reality of my own being, of the deepest, first principle that placed me outside of nothingness. It was a powerful intuition and its violence often frightened me; that intuition gave me, for the first time, knowledge of a metaphysical absolute.' Or again, at the sight of something or other - a blade of grass, a windmill - a soul may know in an instant that these things do not exist by themselves, and that God exists.” …”I was looking out of the window and thinking of nothing in particular. Suddenly a great change took place in me, as if from the perception of the senses I had passed over to an entirely inward perception. The passing trees suddenly had become much larger than themselves, they assumed a dimension prodigious for its depth. The whole forest seemed to be speaking and to speak of Another, became a forest of symbols, and seemed to have no other function than to signify the Creator."
The man who lives in contact with what he believes to be a living Church is a man always expecting to meet Plato and Shakespeare tomorrow at breakfast. He is always expecting to see some truth that he has never seen before. --Chesterton
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