This is http://www.essayz.com/a9603022.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %APPRECIATE UNKNOWN SKILL ABILITY POWER PERSON 960302 Often people of great skill, ability and power are not appreciated because others cannot imagine that the skills, abilities and powers which such people exercise could ever exist. We cannot appreciate that which to us seems so impossible that we have never been aware of it--- even as a hypothetical possibility. It is one thing to consider something as a hypothetical possibility, and then to decide that it is impossible. It is another thing to be so subconsciously sure that something is impossible, that it does not come to consciousness as even a hypothetical possibility---and so there is not even an awareness of it as a hypothetical possibility. It is then beyond any possible consideration, awareness and appreciation. Even so--- there are people around us who know such "impossibilities" as realities which they exercise on our benefit---with us none the wiser. We need to be aware that sometimes people whom we regard as the least among our neighbors may be such people; and so respect all of our neighbors for the realities which they know and exercise---but of which we are totally unaware. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================