Exposed
to otherness
The
exodus makes you leave the space of same
one to run the adventure on the side of the other
one.
Not
just the 'other' as a simple inoffensive and abstract 'category'
still captive of the sphere of the 'same', but the other
as other. The
other one which goes off on its own and refuses to be tamed. The
other one which refuses to enter completely the circle of
comprehension.
The disturbing other one.
To
be exposed to otherness is not without uncertainty and risk. But
aren't the very important things always exposed for us to uncertainty
and risk? To live. To die. To love. To create. To undertake. To
generate. To believe. To hope… As if the basic essentials were to
be played on the extreme register where our 'same' can only surrender
to the 'other'
of the mystery which carries us.
Tell
me your relationship with the other one. I tell you your hope or your
despair.
The
other
on can be disturbing. But essentially, the
other
one is chance. And it belongs to man to seize it. Man exists
authentically only in opening. And this opening is not simply for
itself, it is for the encounter. The Christian revolution puts the
personal other
in the centre. Every thing else revolves round it.
The person is dissidence.
The person is not a rule but an exception.
The person refuses the masks.
The person cannot be demonstrated, just encountered.
The person is where man passes man infinitely.
The person is always on the way.
The person is essentially different from the individual.
The person embraces the carnal and the spiritual reality.
The person is saying ‘no’ to the hypothalamus.
The person is unforeseeable.
The person is ceaselessly beginning.
The person is continuous creation.
The person is never exhausted by its expression.
The person is never enslaved by its conditions.
The person is unique and irreplaceable.
The person is breathing the grace.
The person is absolutely unusable.
The person resists manipulation.
The person refuses mimics.
The person is never absolutely alone.
The person is deeply in communion.
The person is calling for encounter.
The person grows in reciprocity.
The person suffers with very other human being.
The person knows that any man is always worth more than his sin.
The person is never despicable even if its caricature is it..
The person’s culmination is in forgiving.
The person always seizes the chances of the difference.
The person wants to be free `with' and not `against'.
The person refuses a freedom paid at the price of a slavery.
The person finds excuses for the other person.
The person refuses to break violence by violence.
The person is not frightened by dirty hands.
The person pronounces the word `happiness' only with an infinite decency.
The person remains optimistic beyond the reasons to be pessimistic.
The person remains calm behind the irritations.
The person newer gives up hope.
The person does not favour insurance against all risks.
The person handles abstractions with a smile.
The person can easily be elsewhere.
The person accepts the limits.
The person is breathing humour.
The person is what does not age in man.
The person fulfills himself in the choice of values which are worth more than life.
The person is rich of what remains in its nudity.
The person is inhabited by the audacity of the impossible.
The person remains in great proximity with the child it was.
The person is in communion with the Absolute.
The person is not where Eros is sought but where Agape is given.
The person is an absolute in the middle of the contingency.
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