Thou

With no "Thou" with whom one stands in relation, there can be no love. There is a deep and mysterious truth in this observation. It was Buber who helped me make a crucial leap from believing the existence of God a most beautiful but ultimately false idea, to discovering - through my own stupid impregnability - the truth of a most beautiful reality.

Buber's observation is also the deepest reason why certain varieties of eastern religions are - ultimately - not worthy of human worship.