Love Powerfully
Rereading some Martin Buber today, in celebration and gratitude. ‎Every morning I shall concern myself anew about the boundary Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully. ~ Martin Buber, “Power and Love” (1926) Excerpt from Martin Buber, “I and Thou” (trans. by Walter Kaufmann, 1970) The world is twofold for man…