The document discusses various obstacles to effective dialogue, particularly personal perceptions that hinder communication. It explores ways individuals address loneliness through escapism, such as drugs, rituals, and joining groups, as well as the importance of love as an eternal and sacred bond between individuals. Love is presented as a vital and historical connection that values each person as unique and indivisible.

7. Speechifyin
g
OBSTACLES TO
DIALOGUE
Seeming
Personal
making
present
Unfoldin
g
Impositio
n
CONTRASTEDWITH
Being

16. WAYS BY WHICH PEOPLE ADDRESS LONELINESS
Use of drugs, rituals, sex, and
alcohol to
find one’s self
Joining group, organization, club
or
fraternity
Escapism
Conformity with
groups
Creative and productive Planning, producing and seeing
the
result of a hobby, pastime or
passion

17. Love is total
Love is
eternal
Love is
sacred
ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF LOVE
Because the other is a concrete
particular person with his/her own
being
history
because persons are indivisible.
because love is not given only for a
limited period of time.
Because in love, persons are
valuable in themselves.
Love is
historical