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“For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.”

Knows Past Understanding Born Loss Generations Forgotten Creator Willingness Psychologist

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”

“In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .”

Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic

“Michael Jackson is the reason why I do music and why I am an entertainer. I am devastated by this great loss, and I will continue to be humbled and inspired by his legacy. My prayers are with his family. Michael will be deeply missed, but never forgotten. He's the greatest, the best ever. No one will ever be better.”

Reason Prayer Loss Inspired Forgotten Legacy Reason Why Entertainers Devastated Best Ever Great Loss

Author:Chris Brown

“Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to China and other low-wage countries. And then it's forgotten about the day after the election.”

Country Jobs Three Loss Week Policy Tvs Lows Concern Election Trade Forgotten China Ads Job Loss

Author:Bernie Sanders

“To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain”

Heaven Loss Kindness Gains Forgotten Drummer Musicianship

Author:Richard Marx

“Loss aversion is a really disproportionate anxiety about stuff that doesn't matter very much. So for instance, if you lose $5, you feel really bad about the $5 you've lost. You're cursing yourself. You're going through it again and again. If, on the other hand, you find $5, you go - hey, great, five bucks. And you've forgotten about it really quickly.”

Ifs Feels Matter Hands Lost Stuff Loses Loss Five Anxiety Forgotten Instance Hey Again And Again Bucks Aversion Cursing Lost You

Author:Tim Harford

“Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his musculature.”

Thinking Men Mind Lost Felt Loss Possibility Breaths Forgotten Connected Passing Passings Mourning Floats Sydney

Book:Body Surfing: A Novel

Source: Body Surfing: A Novel

“Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.”

Ifs Life Needs Feels Mind Persons Remember Loses Loss Focus Perspective Increase Grateful Forgotten Abundance Need You Concentrating Noticer

Author:Andy Andrews

“I waited for dawn, but only because I had forgotten how hard mornings were. For a second I'd be normal. Then came the dim awareness of something off, out of place. Then the truth came crashing down and that was it for the rest of the day. Sunlight was reproof. Shouldn't I feel better than I had in the dead of night.”

Feels Hard Night Loss Morning Awareness Normal Down And Forgotten Dawn Sunlight Feel Better Reproof Crashing Down

Author:Francine Prose