Thinking has its place. Acting too. Yet not every movement leads out of one’s own circle. There are forms of thinking that clarify without binding, and forms of acting that produce effect without risk. Both can persist for a long time without ever touching what is truly at stake. Encounter marks a transition. It begins where insight no longer suffices and success offers no relief. Where decisions are not delegated but carried. Not public, not vicarious, but face to face, under conditions that allow no evasion.