The more we are confident in knowing ourselves, the less leery we will be of knowing others.  Being at ease with knowing yourself results in an at-ease disposition when getting to know others.  Defensiveness, argumentativeness and the need to be right and to prove others wrong are only evidences that a person really doesn't know as much as they would like to think they do, and that they are fearful of being confused or even of being persuaded to think more deeply or differently.  Fear of dialogue is fear of knowledge and an evidence of a lack of knowledge.
 
I am so at home with my love and acceptance of Jesus, the Christ.  The more I read the gospels, the more I fall in love with the Christ all over again.  Christ epitomizes to me the very essence of God.  And, I want to be like Him.  Sadly, the more I see the beauty of the Christ, the more aware I become of the ugliness that currently exists in Christianity.
 
Because I am at ease with Christ, I am open and very comfortable talking to those of other religions.  Not only do I love the Christ I see in the gospels, I love the Christ I find in the Tao de Ching! I cherish the wise and holy teachings of the Buddha, of Lao Tzu, of Krishna, and many others.  And, I cherish the Christ I see in all of them!  My love for the Christ is not limited to mental geography or borders of spiritual ownership.  No religion can claim ownership of truth.  Christ will not be, and cannot be, confined to Christianity.  How can the creation own  he Creator?  We cannot own the Christ or His truth.  Christ owns us... all of us.  And, He is the origin of all truth.