OBSTACLES TO

CONTRASTED WITH
DIALOGUE
Seeming Being

Speechifying Personal making

present
Imposition Unfolding
 T E N D E N C I E S THAT M A K E D I A L O G U E
A N D P E R S O N A L M A K I N G PRESENT DIFFICULT

Analytical thinking when we break person into parts

Reductive thinking when we reduce the richness of a

person to a schema, a structure, and/or
a concept
Derivational thinking when we derive the person from a mixed
formula
 WAYS BY W H I C H PEOPLE A D D R E S S L O NE L I NE SS

Escapism Use of drugs, rituals, sex, and alcohol to

find one’s self
Conformity with groups Joining group, organization, club or
fraternity

Creative and productive Planning, producing and seeing the result

work or activity of a hobby, pastime or passion
 ESSENTIAL C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S OF LOVE
Love is historical because the other is a concrete
particular person with his/her own
being history
Love is total because persons are indivisible.

Love is eternal because love is not given only for a

limited period of time.
Love is sacred because in love, persons are valuable in
themselves.