“The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by many competing societies with many individuals and in contact with societies elsewhere.” HumansLiteratureIndividualLossAreasRateInventionContactFasterElsewhereCompetingHuman Inventions Author:Jared Diamond
“Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.” ArtTodayFormIndividualLossMusicGroupsJazzContact Author:Dave Brubeck
“Those who know in their hearts that they are not really necessary -- and are entirely replaceable-- must inevitably be tempted to misrepresent the nature of their work and build up a false notion of its importance. A further alienation from truth takes place, a further loss of contact with reality. And one thing we can be sure of is that self-deception, whether on the level of the wind and the rain or on that of spiritual reality, must always come up against the real sooner or later, and that its destruction is very painful.” KnowsHeartRealSelfRealitySpiritualLossLevelsOne ThingWindRainDestructionImportanceNotionCome UpPainfulContactDeceptionSooner Or LaterTemptedAlienationSelf Deception Author:Charles le Gai Eaton
“Removed from its more restrictive sense, masturbation has become an expression for everything that has proved, for lack of human contact, to be void of meaning. We have communication problems, suffer from egocentrism and narcissism, are frustrated by information glut and loss of environment; we stagnate despite the rising GNP.” HumansProblemSufferingLossEnvironmentInformationExpressionCommunicationContactDespiteRisingVoidNarcissismFrustratedMasturbationCommunication Problems Author:Gunter Grass
“So long as man is capable of Prema, Dharma will exist, do not doubt it. When that Prema is fixed on the Lord, your mental make-up will slowly and steadily undergo a revolutionary change; then, man will share in the sorrows and joys of his fellow-beings; thereafter he contacts the very source of the Bliss that is beyond the temporary gains and losses of this world.” MenWorldLongJoyLossLordDoubtShareThis WorldSourceSorrowCapableGainsFellowsContactRevolutionaryFixedBlissTemporaryDharmaRevolutionary ChangeGains And Losses Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.” IfsFeelsFirstsHumansPersonsPainUniverseSexHuman BeingsLossLove IsMistakeForeverConditionsLonelinessPureDeserveFirst TimeAbsolutesRewardsNakedContactCompromiseBelovedHuman ConditionMaking LoveHollowEpiphanyRight PersonTrue ReligionAwkwardnessIdiocyClumsinessEndymionTrue Person Book:Rise of Endymion Source: Rise of Endymion