"To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world."

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Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.167, Psychology Press

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

#Understanding Quotes #World Quotes #Body Quotes

“You must never call your enemy by a name you choose for him." â€œInstead you must call him by the name he calls himself. What he chooses will reflect his pride; it will reveal his desires. But what you choose to call him will reveal your fears, which should be kept to yourself, lest your enemy find the way to exploit them.”
“I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.”
“The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were made for union with one another. They might express this through different rituals, doctrines, dogmas, or beliefs, but at the higher levels they're talking about the same goal. And the goal is always union with the divine.”
“How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It's not so much that you've lost your memory, more like you're submerged in it, like you're living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.”

Source : Jackie Kay (2012). “Red Dust Road: Picador Classic”, p.54, Pan Macmillan
“Open source isn't about saving money, it's about doing more stuff, and getting incremental innovation with the finite budget you have.”
“I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.”

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