He does not want to put on the crown of the King of the World but by receiving it from our hand. Dialogical thought As Buber himself wrote in his autobiographical fragments, his dialogical thought evolved from his occupation with Hasidism. It is characteristic for I-Thou relations that only in them real encounter happens when all is left behind, all preconceptions, all reservedness is given up, when one fully engages in the encounter with the other and carries on a real dialogue with him. The relation to the Thou is immediate. Between I and Thou there is no terminology, no preconception and no imagination, and memory itself changes, since it plunges from singularity into the whole.
All means are impediment.
Only where all means fall to pieces, encounter happens. The real novum in these thoughts is the expansion of the notion of relation over interhuman and God-man relations to the whole of existence. My whole existence is determined by the kind of relation I have to the elements. I can have an I-It relation toward my life when I imagine it as a destiny imposed upon me or a targetless accident, but I can also have a dialogical relation toward it, I can conceive it as an address to me, as an request to give answer. And it is the same with history, an element of life extremely important to Buber and man in general.