The document discusses several topics: 1) Obstacles to dialogue such as speechifying and imposition contrasted with personal unfolding. 2) Tendencies like analytical, reductive, and derivational thinking that make dialogue and personal connection difficult. 3) Ways people address loneliness including escapism, conformity, and creative or productive work. 4) Essential characteristics of love including that it is historical, total, eternal, and sacred.

15. OBSTACLES TO
DIALOGUE
CONTRASTED WITH
Seeming Being
Speechifying Personal making
present
Imposition Unfolding

27. TENDENCIES THAT MAKE DIALOGUE
A N D PERSONAL MAKING 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

37. WAYS BY W H I C H PEOPLE ADDRESS LONELINESS
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
work or activity
Planning,producing and seeing the result
of a hobby,pastime or passion

40. ESSENTIAL CHARACTERISTICS 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.

41. Sa mundong puno ng
“Pinagtagpo pero hindi
pinursue, hanapin mo
yung taong magmamahal
sao ng buo at totoo.
F.J.D.G. 2024