'Human thinking is such that it transcends the present and [consciously relates to] the absent; the absent, what is not there, is given to us as such.'

-R. Sokolowski, Phenom.​, p. 217

'What gives us life?  And what takes it away?  Those are most basic questions for how anyone would live.

-Memento Vivere project notes, 4 Oct 2020

'one can distinguish different kinds and degrees of transformation...and also highlight the limitations of the rhetoric of transformation, which include...the exploitation of transformation rhetoric for the sake of power-plays.

Still...we know powerfully motivating, constructive transformation takes places and often is deliberately constructed to do so.'

-DD, ​p. 22

'...while grand narratives of human history typically ascribe change to dramatic catalysts, change happens every day as people accept or question, consciously or unconsciously, the meaning of existing social relations....  Daily life does not just acquiesce to the changes thrust upon it but has a truly transformative potential.'

-C. Robin, 'Archaeology of Everyday Life', p. 375

https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102218-011105

'In any verbal scenario, as Naour (2009) points out, affirmative 'words can substitute for the actual [physical, body-to-body] contact comfort such as mother to child.  In short order, in such scenarios words become powerful as secondary reinforcers to condition new behavior or to sustain formerly acquired behavior.'  (10)  This behavior can include new and sustained use of [a particular] phrase by individuals within [particular language-using] groups.'

-XJ, ​p. 96

'Memetica is the Big Drama we're all acting within, against, or alongside now.'

​-Memetica Ecological project notes, 26 Sept 2020

'It is everyday life which measures and embodies the changes which take place "somewhere else", in the "higher realms".'  

-H. Lefebvre, in The Everyday (Johnstone, ed.), p. 32

​https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/everyday

'Memento vivere is the question of how we live within, or in interaction with, memetica ecologica.

What are the particular ideas and actions that make up our lives within, or in interaction with, our 'world' of embodied information?

Our brains and bodies (they are one) DO.  What do they do?  Their actions have effects.  What are those effects?  The effects (of those actions) calcify and become routines and artifacts.  What are those routines?  What are those artifacts?'

​-Memento Vivere project notes, 4 Oct 2020

'while enthusiastic or ecstatic elements are included in what I take to be transformative, I include much more mundane and graduated development as also a part of "transformative experience"'

-DD, ​p. 22

'...despite our global connectivity, an individual may struggle just as much as ever, or even more, to feel connected with other people.'

-Gibelyou & Northrop, Big Ideas​, p. 242