I and Thou: All Real Living is Meeting

"-What, then, do we experience of Thou?
-Just nothing. For we do not experience it.
-What, then, do we know of Thou?
-Just everything. For we know nothing isolated about it anymore."

I am reading I and Thou by Martin Buber. If I've read anything that could serve as a starting place for Christian thought, for right thought in general, it would be this book. The book is concise and carefully worded so as to tease out the relation itself.

I and Thou is the philosophy of standing in relation and of being a person - which are two sides of the same coin. One comes to be an I, to be fully themselves, when standing in relation, standing in relation to Thou by speaking the primary word I-Thou. One is also able to speak the other primary word, I-It, but here the human experiences, appropriates, and uses. It stands over against the I. Thou stands with I, in relation. The I of I-It is no person, but only that which is individuated from other objective surroundings. The I of I-It also does not have reality for reality is only had in relation and the I in I-It stands in no relation.

The book speaks best for itself. I recommend reading it for yourself.