110 | III. Event and Being-there
Proceeding anthropologically, all kinds of “attunements” can be discovered, and thus, a botany, or an herbarium, of attunements can be established, according to which one attunement can be endorsed and others discarded, depending on the attunement and in keeping with the wishes of the “time.”
But because all anthropology belongs to metaphysics and, for metaphysics, the truth of being cannot even come into question, therefore the essential relation of being to attunement remains concealed. But this relation is the only one that a thinker can think in relation to attunements and their essence.
It is immediately apparent that “attunements” in their multiplicity are not lying ready like hiding-places for whatever feeling-states the human undergoes. On the contrary, attunements are in each case an essence unified out of the historical essence of being. All attunements accord in the essence of being, and their opposition is only an appearance produced by a constricting of the essence of attunement, there where it affects to be pouring out its riches.
The Fundamental Attunement of Thankfulness
To think its essence can only mean listening thoughtfully to the attunement of the attuning.
But not composing treatises on kinds of attunements in general, as if they were objects present at hand.
Steadfastness in attunement is first necessary and essential in the sustaining of the crossing to the other inception.
Here, appropriative eventuation, and with it, the attuning of the attuning voice, has begun.
But the attunement of the crossing is:
The courageous generosity of patience in destitution [Die Großmut der Langmut in der Armut], from out of the richness of the appropriative eventuation of Dasein, through the intimacy of the more inceptive first inception.