Are You Real?
Kallistos Ware
The isolated individual is not a real person. A real person is one who
lives in
and for others. And the more personal relation****ps we form with others,
the
more we truly realize ourselves as persons. It has even been said that
there
can be no true person unless there are two, entering into communication
with
one another.
This idea of openness to others could be summed up under the word love. By
love,
I don?t mean merely an emotional feeling, but a fundamental attitude. In
its deepest
sense, love is the life, the energy, of God in us. We are not truly
personal as long as
we are turned in on ourselves, isolated from others. We only become
personal if we
face other persons, and relate to them.
But who to relate to? And when, and how?
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/ThreeQuestions.htm
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