“When we are open, we allow ourselves to sit with animal thoughts,

accept the animal address, tolerate uncertainties—as Keats describes in his idea of negative capability (‘When a man is capable of being in

uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact & reason’)—and the vulnerability associated with exposing

ourselves with whatever may rush in to fill our yearning.”

From Animal Joy, A Book of Laughter and Resuscitation by Nuar Alsadir