Transcending the Obvious [06.14.98]

Now what is there about this human experience, pursued in full cycle, that enables man to rise above what he thinks he knows and so often to do better than he knows how ? How does he transcend the obvious ?

... If he engages himself he will be caught up in the realities of human existence in ways that would never have occurred to him. He will breast the onrush of events. He will see, he will feel, he will be frightened, he will be exhilarated, and he will find himself feared, hated, and loved. Every resource at his disposal, not merely his cognitive and professional talents, will be challenged. So involved will he be, that in order to survive, he will have to cope with his circumstances inarticulately as well as verbally, primitively as well as intelligently, and he will have to pull himself together physically, socially, biologically, and spiritually.

George Kelly