What/where is the sacred?
Dec. 25th, 2002 10:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
novapsycheThe sacred is here and now. The only God worth keeping is a God that cannot be kept. The only God worth talking about is a God that cannot be talked about. God is no object of discourse, knowledge, or even experience. He cannot be spoken of, but he can be spoken to; he cannot be seen, but he can be listened to. The only possible relationship with God is to address him and to be addressed by him, here and now--or, as Buber puts it, in the present. For him the Hebrew name of God, the tetragrammaton (YHVH), means he is present. Er ist da might be translated: He is there; but in this context it would be more nearly right to say: He is here.
--Walter Kaufmann, in his prologue to Martin Buber's I and Thou, pp. 25-26.
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Date: 2002-12-26 01:11 pm (UTC)Sometimes, even the obvious has to be said.
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Date: 2002-12-26 01:10 pm (UTC)Incidentally, I learned some interesting things about the etymology and philology of the word "hallelujah", but I'll have to dig through my stack of journals to find what I'm thinking of.
Also incidentally, I recently coined the term "hallelucinating", which is what I feel is what happens when one ingests entheogens. I like that term. :)
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