movement of love in communication
An insightful communication scholar wrote:
in all communication, in so far as it is related to actual experience, there must be a movement of love. Those who have loved over many years may reach a point where almost all masks are gone. But never all. The lover's plight is tied to the fact that every one of us puts on a mask to address himself, too. Such masks to relate ourselves to ourselves we also try to put aside and with wisdom and grace we to some extent succeed in casting them off. When the last mask comes off, sainthood is achieved, and the vision of God. But this can only be with death.[1]
Let's get naked?
[1] Walter Ong (1975), "The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction," in An Ong reader: challenges for further inquiry, ed. by Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup (Cresskill, N.J.: Hampton Press, 2002) pp. 425-6.
Tags: communication, love, masks