you-are-received-from-above-through-the-face-of-the-other

# You are received from above through the face of the other The new self is given from above, but it does not arrive in private. It comes through a face. The other is where the height meets me: the one who can confront and not only confirm, who returns what I could not have told myself. So the descent runs along the horizontal; grace reaches me through the between, not over its head. To be remade from above is to be met. The face of the neighbour is not a lesser thing than heaven but the place heaven touches down. Related: [[the-space-between-us-is-the-space-of-the-spirit]], [[otherness-supplies-the-prediction-error]], [[the-new-is-received-only-onto-emptied-ground]], [[the-self-and-world-disclose-each-other]]