From The Daily Dialogue
From The Daily Dialogue
Broadcast of 6/8/98
Subject: [DailyDialogue #158] Voices
"Through shared talk we engage with the voices different from our own and take them in, creating a diversity in our inner conversation that corresponds with the diversity in the outer world. Over time, we gradually expand our repertoire of inner voices as our worlds expand. In effect, one might imagine a "self" to be an ecology of multiple voices and points of view, a kind of ongoing conversation generated by our interaction with a succession of environments. Thus, our sense of self is not only influenced by but actually constructed out of the activity of the dialogue." -- Common Fire, Lives of Commitment in a Complex World.
In a society which stresses the primacy of the individual, it is easy to misjudge the importance of messages that we receive from others. These messages can be important factors in our achievements, successes, and failures. How much more important then, that we engage in the most highest forms of communication with those that we love (including ourselves.)
Experiment: Plan to dialogue with your partner about a small irritation. Work through the interaction in your mind, what you will say, what she will say, and so on. Then try it in real life and see whether the pattern of communication was as you imagined.
Affirmation: As we deepen our practice of dialogue, we apprehend and know deeper wisdom about our partner and ourselves. The Daily Dialogue is published each day of 1998 by e-mail. Copyright 1998, Eddy Brame and Marty Crouch, All rights reserved. Past issues of the Daily Dialogue may be searched at our website, http://www.dailydialogue.com. Please encourage a friend to subscribe by visiting http://dailydialogue.com/home.html. You may also unsubscribe at the website.
