dialogue

The 'Dance of Love' is much more of a dialogue, one takes the lead and the other follows. One dictates a step and the other carries it out. One determines the direction, the other determines the distance travelled in a given figure. One sets the pace, the other reveals the grace. One understands the language of the other and knows what is coming next. The one leading leads with love and respect; never seeing the follower as being weak or inferior. And in the same manner, the one following follows with Trust and Submission; never feeling too big to be led or scared to jump. There is a blind assurance that someone is there to catch.

A dialogue is very important. It is a form of communication in which question and answer continue till a question is left without an answer. Thus the question is suspended between the two persons involved in this answer and question. It is like a bud with untouched blossoms . . . If the question is left totally untouched by thought, it then has its own answer because the questioner and answerer, as persons, have disappeared. This is a form of dialogue in which investigation reaches a certain point of intensity and depth, which then has a quality that thought can never reach.

What is it?___ prayer.___or a child?__he nodded.__or me?__nother nod.__n a tree?___rees spend all day looking up at God.

Dialogue reminds us that we can question to build, not only to doubt or deconstruct.

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

In looking at our our individual classroom pedagogies and our isolated artistic endeavors, we must broaden the frame of analysis to consider historical, contextual and institutional assumptions. This means a constant awareness of how the micro-practices of interpersonal dialogue and embodied ways of knowing each other can provide an impetus fro structural change.

I realized that my life of late had consisted of far too much dialogue and not enough exposition. I imagined an angry, bespectacled English teacher slashing his pen through the transcript of my life, wondering how someone could possibly say so much and think so little.

Six saw a caterpillar.''What kind?''Green, with purple and white zigzags.''I see,' Thaniel said slowly. Liking children did not keep him from being perplexed by them. He was recently too old to remember his own childhood with any clarity. 'I imagine that was exciting?'She glanced up at him warily. 'No. It was just a caterpillar.

Appreciation for cultural diversity is essential for our co-existence.

Dialogue is about creating awareness through self-observation; it starts from the inside out, not the outside in.

We have to accept that much of reality is ineffable and so to understand it we can't rely on words alone.

Dialogue is an opportunity for people to communicate from outside the limitations of their points of view. When we enter a circle of dialogue, there are no labels, only human beings.

Dialogue teaches you to listen through your emotions, not to become distracted or distanced from the truth because of them.

Practicing dialogue helps you to cultivate a realness that allows you to face reality on its own terms, not just the terms you__ like it to have in order to remain in your comfort zone.

When people challenge your ideas, they help you (whether they know it or not).

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

Dialogue helps us to acknowledge that we see the world not as it is, but as we are.