“We must be forewarned that only rarely does a text easily lend itself to the reader's curiosity... the reading of a text is a transaction between the reader and the text, which mediates the encounter between the reader and writer. It is a composition between the reader and the writer in which the reader "rewrites" the text making a determined effort not to betray the author's spirit.” DoeSpiritReadingEffortLearningReaderCuriosityDeterminedEncountersBetrayCompositionTransactionsForewarned Author:Paulo Freire
“A Christian ought to realize what the weights laid on his spirit are. If he encounters it in the morning and does not deal with it at once, he experiences defeat the whole day long.” IfsLongDoeWholeChristianSpiritRealizingDealsMorningOughtWeightDefeatEncounters Author:Watchman Nee
“Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.” ActionLawSpiritSportsCitizensMoralityOfficeTraditionIndependentWorkersFinishedTechniqueObjectivesEncountersReliefCarrieCustomsDistractionFactoriesCriteriaDeviation Author:Jacques Ellul