Opening the Window to the Absolute

Abstract

In our encounters with people, whom we know or do not know, whom we know well just a little, or even whom we see every day at all hours, we always seek a piece of common experience, of common concern to serve as a rejoinder to our last conversation, to our last shared interest or simply to throw a bridge between ourselves, if only a bridge of quite ordinary facts, trivial notions, most common incidents, feelings, emotions such that we find for ourselves a place to start with within the same climate of such a convincing everydayness that there be no mistake possible as to the nature, nuance, form, intensity of experience we want to share as a conducting thread extending from one consciousness to another. We seek the commonest of situations, which embed this thread in the pulp of life itself, endowing it with meaning, with indubitability, with conviction, in fine, with the simplicity necessary for its being conveyed. Without this common ground we could not communicate anything to another being. This communication within life itself takes all and remains.