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\nGenuine 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.
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\nThis 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.
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\nThis 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.
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\nHere's our source for this week:
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\n\u201cTo communicate is to enter the other, while watching ourselves carefully, to enter without usurping\u2026to 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.\xa0 The univocal gift, without reciprocity\u2026 is not communication, but violation.\u201d
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\nPhoto by Priscilla Du Preez on Unsplash\n