It is both a terror and a mercy that we know ourselves only incompletely and each other hardly at all — because, somewhere in that lacuna of mystery, in that opaque space beyond absolute knowledge and absolute empathy (which assumes knowledge of another’s experience), some of the most magical things in life come abloom. Those are the places we grow, and grow into — the openings that are our portals to the possible.
Author: Maria Popova
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings)
Subjects: Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Life & Society, Psychology | Behavior
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