Monday, January 7, 2008

Human uniqueness

"Every person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique. ... Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved."

Martin Buber, The Way of Man


As each and ever person exists only once and will be not be replicated, she is called to contribute to the world in an equally singular and unrepeatable manner.