“There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.” IfsMindHappensYoungSpiritPowerfulCreativeProgressIntellectualContactWorldlyEndeavour Author:Will Self
“It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.” HumansHappensHumanityHuman BeingsCuttingStrangeDignityContactTensionTouchedTouchingTendernessWholenessMisunderstandingStrange ThingsCutting Off Book:Ingmar Bergman: Interviews Source: Ingmar Bergman: Interviews
“A teacher will have an initial contact at some point with someone. It happens inwardly first. Before you ever meet an advanced teacher, they have somehow traveled inwardly along the astral planes.” FirstsHappensTeacherContactPlanesEnlightenedTraveledInitials Author:Frederick Lenz
“If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words, and so what you do is to put music to them and in this way you make contact with the words, through the musical thing. It happens when two feelings come together and they do something together and they compliment each other.” IfsWayWantWritingTwoFeelingsHappensTogetherMusicalContactCompliment Author:Jim Capaldi