73 On Seeing Clearly and Maybe Understanding for the First-Time

EXPERIENCE has taught us that sometimes there are things that we should not attempt.  Things that can’t be done, things that we shouldn’t touch.  Sometimes we just have to observe, and possibly be observed in the process.

Steinbeck put it thus:

“There are those who must live in rooms of experience that the rest of us can never enter – perhaps we should quit trying to intrude into these places, and simply learn to guard the door!”