Listening : Buber Notes

How do we typically "love"

By viewing another as an object.

Relation is reciprocity

My you acts as me as I act on it
We come to better know ourselves through our relation to others
We're not always aware of the things we are doing

In the act of dialogue i come to understand more of you as well as

myself

The it is the

chrysalis

The you is the

butterfly

Buber contends that after we engage in the I, You

We have to go back to the I, It. The I, Thou isn't a space you can exist in indefinitely.

We shift back and forth from

I, it and I, thou

Merton argued that

We are terrified of our own death
We are terrified of the real us
If we die will people truly know who we are
We are terrified of not having anything to say