Dialogue leads to inner discoveries: we learn while recognizing something within ourselves; we learn while bringing something to light; we learn while something that was inside us comes to the surface and becomes something external to us; we learn while we reason with someone else who challenges our thinking system; we learn while we become strangers to ourselves and begin to observe ourselves from outside. Dialogue is precisely the practice that fosters this sort of self-knowledge. Dialogue is the mirror that does not reflect the illusory image of what we would like to be, but that shows us how we really are "here" and "now". Dialogue allows us to transform our thinking into critical thinking. In short, through dialogue we have the chance not only to know ourselves better, but even to open ourselves to the other and, at the same time, to open ourselves, through the other, to a higher dimension: the dimension of ideas and reasons. In fact dialogue is not an individual, private and self-closing act, but on the contrary it represents a dimension that opens us to confront with others and with reality. In short, dialogue is a bridge that connects humans to each other. Human beings who otherwise would limit themselves to imposing their own vision of the world instead of enriching their own through that of the other. Human beings who otherwise would remain unreachable islands even for the most daring, capable and experienced explorers.
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