Martin Buber One of the finest passages from Jewish mysticism is in Martin Buber's I and Thou . I can classify it in a species and study it as a type in its structure and mode of life. Buber continues by saying he could also see the tree in terms of natural laws or mathematical relationships. The tree is no longer It. I have been seized by the power of exclusiveness.
Nothing is lost.
The person sees all else in light of that tree or that person or that work of art.