You do not know me personally, but I am afraid you have not been able to escape knowing about me.
My reason for sending you these lines is tht I just read the newly published American edition of your collection of essays, Pointing the Way".
I wish to tell you how strongly I have responded to what you write about our age of distrust and to the background of your observations which I find in your general philosophy of unity created "out of the manifold". Certainly, for me, this is a case of "parallel ways".
Once in a while I have my way to Jerusalem. It would, indeed, give me very great pleasure if on a forthcoming visit I my call on you.
Princeton. Am 18. April lädt Hammarskjöld Buber ein, ihn in der UNO zu besuchen. Im Mai kommt der Religionsphilosoph. Für beide scheint es eine besondere Art von "Pfingstbegegnung" gewesen zu sein.
Der Mensch auf der Suche nach dem Sinn seines Lebens, auf dem logotherapeutischen Weg nach "Jerusalem". Für manche Menschen "endet" die Sinnsuche auf der Kreuzstätte Golgatha. Im September 1961 hieß Golgatha für Dag Hammarskjöld Ndola (Stadt in Sambia), der Ort des Abschusses seines Flugzeugs.
Yesterday I got your kind letter and also the last German edition of "Ich und Du" with the Postscript. I am certain that I am reading you correctly if I see reflected in your reply a silent "Aufruf" that I try a translation of this keywork, as decisive in its message as supremely beautiful in its form.