We will be convening here at the ZigZag café, Suisse, on Thursdays for conversation and dialogue. I invite you to stop by every Thursday for the question of the day. Your thoughts and participation are most welcome. Pull up a stool, avec un café, un thé, ou un chocolat chaud, et un croissant, and join in here on Thursday at the ZZ café.
For today:
How do you give a person a world, instead of drawing this person into or imposing your own?
4 comments:
Hi,
I am not sure how to interpret you question. What does "giving a world" mean?
Sisyphos,
To give a world could connect to several things, but let's say it's something like an attempt to create an atmosphere of openness and exploration where one can discover and learn in freedom to be and become one's own self.
Hi
Well maybe we can start with the word "world". What is a world? There are many possible meanings for this word but I humbly try to describe my notion of it: the world is always more than what I think it is. It always surpasses my knowledge of it and my capacity to deal with it. The world contains beauty and terror. The world contains time and space. To give a person the world would mean to share those contraries honestly and speak about that what one knows. What "a world" in contrast to "the world" could mean I am not quite sure.
Sisyphos,
Good point. World can have many possible meanings. To give a world is a metaphor for trying to help someone into the world, as you use it, for themselves. A world might be like a horizon from which to see the world, but that horizon is one that is fostered - given to a person who is welcome to develop insights and points of view that belong to them.
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