A tolerance for not knowing

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John Keats, the great English Romantic poet, writing  about the qualities needed for  full openness to the infinite depth of the world and of the person:

When man is capable of being in uncertainties,

Mysteries, doubts,

without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.

Letter to George and Tom Keats,  December 1817

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