Quotes for All
The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self. Edward Abbey
In the esoteric teachings, a transference process takes place between teacher and student where knowledge is actually transmitted from one to the other. This requires that the student be receptive. Frederick Lenz
Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life. Frederick Lenz
In Zen, and in other forms of self discovery, we do have a transference that occurs where psychically, information, blocks of attention, are transferred to the student. Frederick Lenz
The way advanced meditation is taught, the way I teach it, the way all enlightened people teach it, is through transference. We transfer light and power to someone else. Frederick Lenz
I read a lot of those Single Girl in New York books, like Fear of Flying, where you could sort of put yourself, through transference, into the Jewish Girl in New York situation. Charles Busch
Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one’s ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker. Arthur M. Jolly
The contempt which men feel for the prostitute, and the fact that they have always regarded themselves as far superior to her, even when they made use of her, suggests an attempt to rationalize the situation; it might be explained as an unconscious transference to the woman of the shame they feel for themselves in … Read more
And in any case, to the old man, when the world becomes trite, the triteness arises not so much from a cessation as from a transference of interest. What is taken from this world is given to the next. The glory is in the east in the morning, it is in the west in the … Read more
Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely ‘think’ his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind … Read more