When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar. The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.

John Connolly
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When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar. When a person faces a new experience for the first time, it can be shocking or even frightening. The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living. In this quote, Martin Luther King Jr. speaks about how when an individual confronts something that is vastly different from their personal experience, they can change their viewpoints and adopt new ideas and beliefs by working with it and embracing it.

Source: The Burning Soul

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