{"id":292608,"date":"2011-07-28T06:24:41","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T04:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/dialogue-and-not-mere-tolerance\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:43:27","slug":"dialogue-and-not-mere-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/dialogue-and-not-mere-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue and not mere tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> <\/strong>Video in Italian<\/a> (2 minutes, 30 seconds) \u00ab The proposal of dialogue goes far beyond simple tolerance, which can also be considered an achievement and is always a value at risk in our society. If two centuries ago Lord Stanhope could say that tolerance, which was once invoked as a grace and then acquired as a right, \u201cwould be rejected one day as an insult,\u201d it was because he foresaw that one day – we hope today – people would become sensitive to higher values, like dialogue, that is, not only tolerating the other person, but profoundly respecting him or her, being open to different ideas, building a relationship among true brothers and sisters. What do you think of this reflection? \u00bb Piero Taiti asks Chiara. I\u2019m sure that dialogue goes far beyond tolerance<\/strong>, even though I wouldn\u2019t totally disregard tolerance because it would be a first step in some cases, at least people wouldn\u2019t be fighting one another. Dialogue, however, is a completely different thing, it\u2019s mutual enrichment, it\u2019s loving one another, it\u2019s feeling that we are already brothers and sisters, it\u2019s creating universal brotherhood on earth, so it\u2019s completely different. Of course, dialogue is true if it is animated by true love. Now, love is true if it is not selfish; otherwise, it\u2019s not love. What kind of love would it be? It would be egoism. In fact, you\u2019ve asked me a number of questions in which you speak of a love that might nurture personal interests, even in dialogue. Such a dialogue would not be built on love, so it wouldn\u2019t even be dialogue, it would be something else. Proselytism. Proselytism must stay outside of this door, it can\u2019t be admitted, otherwise, there isn\u2019t dialogue. Dialogue means loving<\/strong>, giving what we have within out of love for the other, and also receiving and enriching ourselves. This is dialogue: becoming \u201cworld men and women,\u201d as our gen say, people who are open to everyone and who give what they have to everyone. I remember that when we first began to live this way of life, we followed the path of loving, and we were really convinced that love is not selfish. You must not love in order to win over another person, or to form a little group for yourself. You must not love in order to have an impact, let\u2019s say, in the office or at school. No, you must love simply in order to love. Our motives were supernatural because of our Christian convictions. Here, we can speak of building a brotherhood, this value of universal brotherhood, but never in order to conquer others. And this is why very many people followed us – because they felt free and they saw the beauty of this way of life. Likewise, we\u2019ll have many contacts with people of other convictions, if we love in this way.   Chiara Lubich at the Meeting with Friends of Other Convictions<\/em> Castel Gandolfo<\/em>, February 8, 1998<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This talk is a real jewel, given by Chiara to a group of people who have no religious affiliation. Proselytizing is left outside the door. This is a dialogue rooted in true love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}