August 15, 2021

202: Watching Ourselves

33 minutes

Genuine communication is a kind of intimacy in which we let ourselves be changed and affected by the gifts brought by the other person we're communicating with. In this way it's different from other forms of speaking (convincing, making a point, offloading). And it requires of us a certain kind of receptivity not just to the other, but to what's going on with ourselves as we speak and listen.

This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about how we might watch our capacity to receive while we're in the midst of conversation, hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace.

This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify.

Here's our source for this week:

“To communicate is to enter the other, while watching ourselves carefully, to enter without usurping…to usurp the other is to annul them, to prevent them from returning the gift; it is the refusal to accept their discrete word; it is to violate his inner home without allowing him to enter ours; it is the arrogance of someone who believes themselves to be an entirely fecundating force and refuses to receive. The univocal gift, without reciprocity… is not communication, but violation.”

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