"Encounter in human beings is always to a greater or lesser extent anxiety-creating as well as joy-creating. I think these effects arise out of the fact that genuine encounter with another person always shakes our self-world relationship: our comfortable temporary security of the moment before is thrown into question, we are opened, made tentative for an instant - shall we risk ourselves, take the chance to be enriched by this new relationship (and even if it is a friend or loved one of long standing, this particular moment of a relationship is still new) or shall we brace ourselves, throw up a stockade, block out the other person and miss the nuances of his perceptions, feelings, intentions?" - The Discovery of Being, p. 22 -
And the question is - why the anxiety? or fear?
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