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the ether QUOTES

1 " The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape. "

2 " He said he’d heard the sound of one hand clapping. He said, once his mind took in the wondrous no-sound of holy oneness, the empty echo of eternal bliss, he was never the same. He could hear it still, he said, resounding in the ether and tickling the back of his brain.

Something not normal was going on with his brain. No argument there. "

― Brenda Marie Smith , Something Radiates

3 " A man's capable of understanding anything - how the ether vibrates, and what's going on in the sun - but how any other man can blow his nose differently from him, that he's incapable of understanding. "

― Ivan Turgenev , Fathers and Sons

4 " Now where do all of those thoughts and feelings go that you send out? Well look all around you, and look upwards, too. The ether around you carries all of your thoughtwaves in all directions! Ping, ping, ping, ping … there they go!!!! "

5 " Look, I say. You can't just let your thoughts float around in the ether and hope eventually they'll connect with something. It's absurd.
No, it's not, Gil says. Lots of good things happen that way. Penicillin. Teflon. Smart dust. Something happens that you weren't expecting and it shifts the outcome completely. You have to be open to it.
When I open my brain, I tell him, things bounce around and fall out. They don't connect with anything. Maybe I haven't got enough points of reference stored up yet.
You're young, he says, that's probably it. When I let my thoughts float around, I trust that they'll latch on to something useful in the end or make an association I wouldn't necessarily have predicted. I'm trusting that they'll find the right thought to complete, all by themselves. The right bit of fact to ping. You have to trust your brain sometimes. "

― Meg Rosoff , Picture Me Gone

6 " Awake and asleep the novel is with you, dogging your footsteps. Strange formless bits of material float out from the ether about you and attach themselves to the main body of the story as though they had hung suspended in air for years, waiting. "

― Edna Ferber , A Peculiar Treasure: Autobiography (American Biography Series)

7 " There were secrets there, the secrets of the ether all mankind is born from; of the blackness that holds our oldest memories captive. "