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Did you hug your child today?
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Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight
Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses
In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow
touch starved.
Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses
The skin, which from head to foot relates us sensitively to the world in which we live,
our matrix, is indeed our most consistently active and informing organ of sense. In a dark
vacuum where only minimal sight, hearing, taste, smell and muscle activity would be
possible, the skin could still report something of the nature of the surroundings: dry,
cold, wet, hot, soft, hard, pressure. This was at one time our total awareness of the
nature of the sheltering womb.
Joan M. Erikson, Wisdom And The Senses; The Way of Creativity, 1988
FEELING, HEARTWARMING, SYMPATHY
There is a chord in every heart that has a sigh in it if touched aright.
Ouida
The truth is that the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.
Yoshida Kenko, Life Frail and Fleeting, The Harvest of Leisure, 1330-1335
FEELING, SYMPATHY, TOUCHED
His heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved
with the wind.
OT: Isaiah, vii, 2
"One conclusion was forced upon my mind at that time, and my impression of its
truth has ever since remained unshaken. It is that our normal waking consciousness,
rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all
about it parted by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness
entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply
the requisite stimuli and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite
types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application. No account of
the universe in its totality can be final, which leaves other forms of consciousness quite
disregarded. How to regard them is the question - for they are so discontinuous with
ordinary consciousness. Yet they may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish
formulas and open a region though they fail to give a map. At any rate they forbid a
premature closing of our accounts of reality."
Wm James Varieties of Religious Experience
HEART, QUALITY, EXCELLENCE
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are
felt in the heart.
Helen Keller
I touch the future. I teach.
Christa McAuliffe
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
--Edwin Hubbel Chapin
HEARTWARMING, TOUCHING, SMILE
"Of all the tales, 'tis the saddest-- and more sad,
Because it makes us smile."
Byron, Don Juan, Canto 8
In the man whose childhood has known caresses and kindness, there is always a fibre of
memory that can be touched to gentle issues.
George Elliot
OPPOSITES
"The Magnificent and Ridiculous are such near Neighbors that they touch one
another."
Fontenelle, Dialogues du Morts. Anciens et Moderns,I.
Sometimes hearing about other people's sadness can touch an empathic chord in our hearts
which moves us deeply. When out of that pain somehing clearly good, perhaps even beautiful
happens, that chord can become a symphony. A beautiful article which shows there are
special kinds of light which burst onto the planet occasionally.
Rob Kall
HEARTWARMING
Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul
Longfellow, The Spanish Student
FEELING, EMOTION, EMPATHY
"The soul of music lumbers in the shell,
Till wak'd and kindled by the master's spell,
And feeling hearts-- touch them but lightly--pour
A thousand melodies unheard before."
ROGERS, SAMUEL, 1763-1855: Human Life
CONNECT, FEEL, OPPORTUNITY
"To touch the quick."
Sophocles
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, 1602
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