#senses

The woman recovering from abuse or other stressful life situations may feel she's in no way in charge of anything, least of all her own world. She faces the horse with trepidation. The horse senses the fear and becomes tense and concerned. The wise instructor starts small. The woman is handed a soft brush and sent to fuss over the horse. It's pointed out that if she stands close to the animal, she will be out of range of a well-aimed kick. She is warned to watch for tell-tale signs of fear in herself and the horse. She's warned to keep her feet out from under the horse's stomping hoof. They're both allowed to back away and regroup and try again until they reach an accord regarding personal space. Calm prevails, and within a few minutes, hours or sessions, interaction becomes friendship. It happens almost every time a woman is allowed enough time and space to work through the situation. So a woman whose daily life is overwhelming her learns to step back. Is this a cure for her endless problems? Of course not. Simple is not simplistic. ↗

— Joanne M. Friedman

#calm #friendship #horses #interaction #regrouping

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love #senses #sensuality #love

Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#hearing #inattention #listening #senses #first-sentence

We live on the leash of our senses. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#live #our #senses

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#bearing #beauty #camp #different #everyone

I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change. ↗

— Tiberius

#always #am #any #beware #binding

He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. ↗

— Plautus

#gods #health #his #judgments #love

These rare senses and powers of reasoning were given to be used freely, but not audaciously, to discover, not to pervert the truth. ↗

— William John Wills

#freely #given #pervert #powers #rare

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ↗

— Grace Paley

#civilization #educate #i #lot #more

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. ↗

— Washington Irving

#imagination #operates #senses #spell #true