ABSTRACT
We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can, everything, even the unprecedented must be possible within it. This is in the
end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can beset us. …But the fear of the inexplicable has not only impoverished the reality of the individual; it has also narrowed the relationship between one human being and another, which has, as it were, been lifted out of the riverbed of infinite possibilities and set down in a fallow place on the bank where nothing happens. For it is not only indolence that causes human relationships to be repeated from case to case with such unspeakable monotony and boredom; it is timidity before any new, inconceivable experience, which we don’t think we can deal with.
