Confrontation"There are, then, two ways to confront or criticize another human being: with instinctive and spontaneous certainty that one is right, or with a belief that one is probably right arrived at through scrupulous self-doubting and self-examination. The first is the way of arrogance...the second is the way of humility....To fail to confront when confrontation is required
... represents a failure to love equally as much as does thoughtless criticism
or condemnation and other forms of active deprivation of caring.... Mutual
loving confrontation is a significant part of all successful and meaningful
human relationships. Without it the relationship is either unsuccessful
or shallow."
M. Scott Peck, The Road Less
Traveled
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