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To be a witness to the divine spark in each being requires a careful and sustained nurture of a dialogical stance. Moving from bystanding to compassionate engagement, facing one’s own collusion with perpetration of violence and/or injustice, and healing from the wounds of oppression require the development of dialogical skills. They also entail the ethical clarity to seek out opportunities for dialogue and to work to nurture dialogical spaces (see Chapter 11).
Thus, a divine spark lives in every thing and being, but each spark is enclosed by an isolating shell. Only man can re-join it with the Origin: by holding holy converse with the thing and using it in a holy manner …
(Buber, 1970, pp. 5–6)
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© 2008 Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman
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Watkins, M., Shulman, H. (2008). Dialogue. In: Toward Psychologies of Liberation. Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230227736_11
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