Communicating or Communing? True Language is Not Something We Use but Someone We Meet

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What is the difference between communicating and communing? In communicating, we inform; in communing, we show—reveal what is hidden. Martin Heidegger says about Language,

“Saying is showing. In everything that speaks to us, in everything that touches us by being spoken and spoken about, in everything that gives itself to us in speaking… th…