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ForewordElevating and Extending Our Capacity to Appreciate the Appreciable World

Imagine what would happen to you if you had the ability to see consistently, and connect with, every strength—every one of the capacities— inherent in the world around you; or to see every positive potential in your son or daughter; or, like Michelangelo, the intellectual ability to “sense” the towering, historic figure of David “already existing” in the huge slab of marble—even before the reality.

Indeed, the appreciable world—the universe of strength, value, and life-generating potential all around us—is so much larger than our normal appreciative capacity. Yet there are some—we all know them—who seem to have a special knack for seeing, noticing, and connecting ...

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