relation and irrelation

People are ‘made for companionship and group living’. As Buber put it, ‘all real living is meeting’.

Many experience a basic dilemma between ‘separateness’ and ‘relatedness’. At times we want ‘space’; at others we feel a deep need to be with people.

We can choose between taking our place alongside whatever confronts us and addressing it as 'you'; or we 'can hold ourselves apart from it and view it as an object, an "it"'