“Where there is no terminology, there is no
consciousness. A poverty-stricken vocabulary for any subject is an
immediate admission that the subject is inferior or depreciated in that
society. Sanskrit has ninety-six words for love; ancient Persian has
eighty; Greek three; and English simply one. This is indicative of the
poverty of awareness or emphasis that we give to that tremendously
important realm of feeling.… Of all the Western languages, English may
be the most lacking when it comes to feeling”
~ The Fisher King
and the Handless Maiden, Robert A. Johnson
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