how to live, according to Buber

"...firstly, everyone should preserve and hallow hims own soul in its own particularity and in its own place, and not envy the particularity and place of others; secondly, everyone should respect the secret in the soul of his fellow man, and not, with brazen curiosity, intrude upon it and take advantage of it; and thirdly, everyone, in his relationship to the world, should be careful not to set himself as his aim."

I turned around and he was there
Like a tree I hadn't noticed growing before
or maybe had mistaken for a weed
And suddenly there it was
With roots and leaves,
a trunk sturdy enough to lean on
a shade big enough to sit in
a tree
a thing to wait for spring with
in a reasonable hope that the summer will bring fruit
knowing that the frost could still bite
but knowing that all that is needed now is a little sun
that success is a simple thing,
is mostly just a matter of avoiding
a big mistake.