"To listen is to be vulnerable. You allow something outside your body to come inside. To be open and impressionable, to hear everything, is dangerous. You can be damaged all too easily."

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Source : W. A. Mathieu (1991). “The Listening Book”, p.12, Shambhala Publications

W.A. Mathieu

#Body Quotes #Vulnerable Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.”

Source : 1941 In the American Freeman, Jul.
“War is not the continuation of policy. It is the breakdown of policy.”
“Our experience using computers reflects a trade-off that was made fifty years ago or more.”

Source : Paul Dourish (2004). “Where the Action is: The Foundations of Embodied Interaction”, p.1, MIT Press
“Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.”
“The great task of statesmanship is to apply past lessons to new situations, to draw correct analogies to understand and act upon present forces, to recognise the need for change.”

Source : Malcolm Fraser, Denis M. White, David Alistair Kemp (1986). “Malcolm Fraser on Australia”
“Where are the leaders who can speak to the idea that it is not alien to American interests, but very much in our socioeconomic interests - not to mention our spiritual health - to integrate immigrants, that our nation functions best when we welcome newcomers and help them participate fully in our society?”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.”
“I mean, anyone can let Danger out but the really clever thing is finding somewhere for it to go afterwards.”

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