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Touch can be physical contact …

• Touch: Bring one’s hand or another part of one’s body into contact with. Oxford Dictionary
• Touch: To put your hand or another part of your body lightly onto and off something or someone. Cambridge Dictionary
• Touch: To bring a bodily part into contact with especially so as to perceive through the tactile sense. Merriam Webster
• Hugging,  Kissing,  The senses,  Sexuality,  Seduction,  Pleasure

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… and can also be emotional contact

• Touch: Produce feelings of affection, gratitude, or sympathy in. Oxford Dictionary
• Touch: To influence someone or something emotionally, or cause feelings of sympathy in someone. Cambridge Dictionary
• Intimacy

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Touch is one of the greatest of our senses

• Your body can be one of the greatest sources of pleasure when you open your five senses fully and experience the physical wonder of being alive. Pleasure can come in the form of sight, like when you see a magnificent sunset, or taste, like when you eat a favorite food. It can come as a glorious musical sound or the soft touch of a lover. The only secret to learning the lesson of pleasure is to make time and space for it in your life. Cherie Carter-Scott
• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. Hannah Arendt
• The senses

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We need touch like oxygen

• Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be despised, denied, or repressed. But you have to keep searching for your body’s deeper need, the need for genuine love. Every time you are able to go beyond the body’s superficial desires for love, you are bringing your body home and moving toward integration and unity. Henri Nouwen
• Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight. Diane Ackerman
• Be it human or animal, touch is a life-giving thing. Has anyone ever had a stroke or a heart attack while cozied up with a pet?  I doubt it.  Robert Brault
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There is enormous power in touch …

• Touch is a freaky thing when you’re not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things. Neal Shusterman
• It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others … an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands … hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact. Wallace Stegner
• We are not people who touch each other carelessly; every point of contact between us feels important, a rush of energy and relief. Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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… especially the touch of a lover

• That’s what it feels like when you touch me. Like millions of tiny universes being born and then dying in the space between your finger and my skin. Sometimes I forget. Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
• See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand. That I might touch that cheek!  William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• I felt that if he touched me, I’d die. and then the thought crawled into my brain that if he didn’t touch me, I’d die. Kitty Thomas, The Auction
• At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. Plato
• Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet. Plato
• Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. “Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,” he agrees. Karen Marie Moning
• My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul. A.C. Van Cherub

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Touch has memory

• Touch has a memory. O say, love, say, What can I do to kill it and be free? John Keats
• I remember that feeling of skin. It’s strange to remember touch more than thought. But my fingers still tingle with it. Lucy Christopher
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Touch is an expression of love and caring …

• In this world, to touch another is to express love. Susan Griffin
• Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. it’s overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt. Leo Buscaglia
• On the unconscious level, touch seems to impart a subliminal sense of caring and connection. Leonard Mlodinow
• Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. Helen Keller
• Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. Rainer Maria Rilke
• Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard. Kristin Armstrong
• Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. Mother Teresa
• Every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.  Maya Angelou
• If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.  Mitsugi Saotome    
• I would define love very simply: as a potent blend of openness and warmth, which allows us to make real contact, to take delight in and appreciate, and to be at one with–our selves, others, and life itself. Openness–the heart’s pure, unconditional yes—-is love’s essence. And warmth is love’s basic expression, arising as a natural extension of this yes. John Welwood
• Love,  Caring

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… the touch of a friendly hand

• And when we come to think of it, goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. It is deep, quiet, and very simple. It passes not with oratory, it is commonly foreign to riches, nor does it often sit in the places of the mighty: but may be felt in the touch of a friendly hand or the look of a kindly eye. David Grayson
• Feelings aroused by the touch of someone’s hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith – all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well. Bernie Siegel
• Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. Edith Sitwell
• There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand. Charles Morgan
• Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours. Vera Nazarian
• A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. Heather Pryor
• When you’re special to a cat, you’re special indeed…she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand. Leonore Fleisher

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Touch is tenderness

• It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be. Robert Goolrick

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Touch is healing

• To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear. Stephen Levine
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Touch the heart of another and let them touch yours

• All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. Tahereh Mafi
• A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart. Heather Pryor
• I feel the healing hands of God touch my heart and kiss my soul. Harley King
• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller
• There’s a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. Melanie Griffith
• When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. Pema Chodron
• If I could touch anything in the world right now, it would be your heart. I want to take that piece of you and keep it with me. Jessica Verday, The Haunted
• I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. Charles de Lint
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Touch the soul

• Awaken to the universes simple gift of the butterfly. Watch with fascination and joy as a jeweled treasure glides by and gently touches your soul. K. D’Angelo
• I feel the healing hands of God touch my heart and kiss my soul. Harley King
• Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls. Melody Beatti
• Nature – trees, flowers, grass – grow in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls. Wilbur Pierce
• Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched. Olive Schreiner
• Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. SARK
• Surprises are the joy of living. Surprises directly touch the soul. Good surprises energize and bad surprises teach. Alev Oguz
• To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. Stephen Covey  
• We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature– trees, flowers, grass–grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence…we need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
• My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul. A.C. Van Cherub
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Touch God …

• Conceive of God in terms of universal Nature – a nature God in whom we really live and move and have our being, with who our relation is as intimate and constant as that of the babe in its mother’s womb, or the apple upon the bough. This is the God that science and reason reveal to us – the God we touch with our hands, see with our eyes, hear with our ears, and from whom there is no escape, who is, indeed, from everlasting to everlasting. John Burroughs
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… and be touched by God

• Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever. Michael W. Smith
• It is good and true to think that every ray of the sun touching the earth has the sun at the other end of it. Just so, every bit of love upon God’s earth has God at the other end of it.  Mark Guy Pearse
• I feel the healing hands of God touch my heart and kiss my soul. Harley King

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Touch life and the world

• Don’t look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it. Mark Twain

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Touch pain with compassion

• When your fear touches someone’s pain, it becomes pity; when your love touches someone’s pain, it becomes compassion. Stephen Levine
• Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. Buddha
• Pain,  Compassion

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Touch people in wonderful ways …

• Your light is seen, your heart is known, your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would be astonished.  If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked.  You are far more wonderful than you think you are.  Rest with that. Rest easy with that. Breathe again. You are doing fine. More than fine. Better than fine. You’re doing great.  So relax. And love yourself today.  Neale Donald Walsch

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… including through language

• Language allows us to reach out to people, to touch them with our innermost fears, hopes, disappointments, victories. To reach out to people we’ll never meet. It’s the greatest legacy you could ever leave your children or your loved ones: The history of how you felt.  Simon Van Booy
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Touch the sky

• Only from the heart can you touch the sky. Rumi
• Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. Paulo Coelho
• We’d never know how high we are, till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our statures touch the sky. Emily Dickinson
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Touch your ideals – or try to at least

• Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. Carl Schurz
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Touch upon truth

• Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. Clarence Darrow
• Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth. Friedrich Nietzsche
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What not to touch

• We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God’s.  Henry Ward Beecher
• Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers. Gustave Flaubert

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Be touched by magic

• Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess’s magic… Cate Tiernan
• Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live. Nora Roberts
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Be touched by music

• I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. Billy Joel
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Be touched by surprise

• Surprises are the joy of living. Surprises directly touch the soul. Good surprises energize and bad surprises teach. Alev Oguz
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Be touched by genius

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. E. F. Schumacher
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Be touched by madness

• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. Aristotle
• In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. Saul Bellow
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Sex is touch at its most intimate

• Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it’s touch we’re afraid of. D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
• Become loving. When you are in the embrace, become the embrace.  Become the kiss.  Forget yourself so totally that you can say, “I am no more.  Only love exists.”  Then the heart is not beating, but love is beating.  Then the blood is not circulating, but love is circulating.  Then eyes are not seeing, love is seeing.  Then hands are not moving to touch, love is moving to touch.  Become love and enter everlasting life.   Osho
• Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame. Lauren Oliver, Delirium
• You must find a boy your own age. Someone mild and beautiful to be your lover. Someone who will tremble for your touch, offer you a marguerite by its long stem with his eyes lowered. Someone whose fingers are a poem. Janet Fitch, White Oleander
• When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves. Judith Plaskow
• When a man touches a woman’s body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul- parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother some day, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security. Jim Anderson
• To make love is to become like this infant again. We grope with our mouths toward the body of another being, whom we trust, who takes us in her arms.  We rock together with this loved one.  We move beyond speech.  Our bodies move past all the controls we have learned.  We cry out in ecstasy, in feeling.  We are back in a natural world before culture tried to erase our experience of nature.  In this world, to touch another is to express love; there is no idea apart from feeling, and no feeling which does not ring through our bodies and our souls at once.  Susan Griffin
• So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. Herman Hesse
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Non sexual touch is essential in sexual relationships

• So many couples hold back kissing, touching, or holding each other until they have time or the desire to have sex. Researchers have found that holding hands relieves stress and affectionate touch boosts the body’s feel good hormones.  Let’s face it, touch is a fundamental part of our existence since we were born. So even a simple hug each day is actually good for your health and wellbeing.    Hold hands.   Stroke your partner’s arm or shoulder softly as you walk by. Give your partner a 20 second kiss when they walk in the door or are leaving for the day.   Affection is the way to make love all day outside of the bedroom.  Sheri Meyers  
• Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of the female; it is a continuum of attraction that extends from the simplest conversation and the most innocent touching through the act of coitus. Garrison Keillor

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Get in touch with your inner most self

• You must learn to get in touch with the innermost essence of your being. This true essence is beyond the ego. It is fearless; it is free; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge. It is beneath no one, superior to no one, and full of magic, mystery, and enchantment. Deepak Chopra
• Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out. Nita Leland
• Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority. Tom Hopkins
• I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself.  Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.  Rudolfo Anaya

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Get in touch with the present moment

• Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. Wayne Dyer
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Get in touch with Universal intelligence

• A higher level of consciousness is awakened. I get in touch with the vast realm of intelligence beyond thought. Eckhart Tolle
• I get in touch with the power of pure potentiality by taking time each day to be silent, to just be. I take time each day to commune with nature. I will practice non-judgement. Today I shall judge nothing that occurs. Deepak Chopra
• Get in touch with your inner silence
• Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. Elizabeth Kubler- Ross

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Get in touch with your disowned energies

• Personal healing on all levels—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual—comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies…. Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole. Shakti Gawain

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• I can’t read lips unless they’re touching mine. Jon Troast

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