Two more bits I want to remember from my slow crawl through Buber's Meetings: . . . "faith" is not a feeling in the soul of man but an entrance into reality, an entrance into the whole reality without reduction and curtailment.

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Real listening has become rare in our time. It is found most often among workers who are not indeed concerned about the person speaking, as is so often the case with the bourgeois public, but about what he has to say.