The only courage that is demanded of us, is the courage for the most strange, the most singular, the most inexplicable that we may encounter. Mankind has in this sense been cowardly, has done life endless harm. The experiences that are called visions, the whole so-called spirit world, death, all these things that are so closely akin to us, have by daily passing been so crowded out of our life, that the senses with which we could have grasped them are atrophied....
Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke