- - Exercise 2 What does it mean to love another? To love another person means to feel compassionate towards them, to 'feel' what they feel. Caring about someone, and what happens to them is also a sign of love. Sharing a relationship with someone means that you have to be responsible and have to be aware that there will be times when things go wrong. Loving someone means taking these 'wrong' things and trying to fix …showed first 75 words of 543 total…

…showed last 75 words of 543 total…have faith. Without these things, the love becomes an 'It' relationship, not meaning much, only things. Exercise 19 Why is Buber emphasizing the difference between love & feelings? In as far as Buber is concerned, feelings are obstacles that hold back the Thou. To be truly in the Thou, you have to be at one with your love and take everything that he/she stands for as a whole, not just as individual things, or 'Its'.