experiences of resonance are unpredictable in two ways. First, you can try to create a context that makes it likely that you will be deeply touched and transformed by something or someone, and that you will be capable of reaching out and responding to this touch. We buy expensive tickets to a concert, for example, or we arrange a beautiful candlelight dinner with our beloved—but, in both cases, the evening might still turn out to be deeply frustrating and alienating, whereas on other occasions, when we do not expect anything, all of a sudden we experience strong resonance with something or
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