On Dialogue

In order to fulfill its purpose, dialogue, in whatever matter, requires us to have several attributes. For instance, it requires us to be: “1- free people within whom the interests of the world do not resonate; 2- people for all; 3- people who give precedence to the common good above everything that we think is true; 4- people who believe in the right of others to be different; 5- people who are consistent in frankness, who do not agree with the others in their faces, and oppose them behind their backs; 6- people who do not project dark thoughts on others; 7- people who cannot be prevented, by anything, from recognizing the Truth, wherever it appears; 8- people of peace; 9- disciplined people who put a limit to everything that drives us to establish our position on the ruins of the world; 10- people who really know that history is full of curses and holds in fond remembrance only good people and saints”. Friends, always bear in mind that the human being is a dialogist. However, do not set out for any dialogue, before you first prepare yourself to its attributes.