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Suppose you are climbing a mountain, writes James, and at one point your only escape is to leap across a deep chasm. "Have faith that you can" make the terrible leap, "and your feet are nerved to its accomplishment. But mistrust yourself...and you will hesitate until all unstrung and trembling...you roll into the abyss. Refuse to believe, and you shall indeed be right," for you will perish. "But believe, and again you shall be right, for you shall save yourself. You make one or the other of two possible universes true by your trust or mistrust-both universes having been only maybes" before you made your choice.

⁠— Bruce C. Hafen