Quotes About Connection

After all, only women are able really to love.

You've always been fond of understanding people too well." "They should arrange not to be understood quite so easily.

The baby understands that its mother loves it. [...] Words have their origin in baby talk, so words have their origin in love.

Natürlich ist es töricht, um jeden Preis von anderen verstanden werden zu wollen. Mir war das früher auch gleichgültig, aber als ich sah, daß Sie an einem Menschen wie mir doch irgendwie interessiert sind, war ich auf der Stelle entschlossen, Ihnen alles zu zeigen.

Man is a foolish creature who wants above all to have someone else know about him.

To be able to see into a friends' dream is a dream in itself. -Doctor K?saku Tokita (Paprika)

She could see the name Fukamachi on a shiny name-plate by the door of the house, but it was a name that meant nothing to Kazuko. And at that moment, in her heart, she began to dream of meeting someone. Someone special who would one day walk into her life. Someone she would instantly feel she had known for years. Someone who would feel the same about her.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

Polka dots can't stay alone. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots we become part of the unity of our environments.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

Seven paters seven times, Send Mary by her Son, Send Bridget by her mantle, Send God by His strength, Between us and the faery host, Between us and the demons of the air.

Teaching is really a natural extension of one's practice--one wants to share something that's so influential and beautiful in one's life.

I stroked your hair in a direction opposite to your journey

My love turns me like a salt sea, it seems, Into sweet drops of autumn's first rain. I'm brought to you slowly as I fall. Take me in. For us there's no angel who will come to redeem. For we are together. Each of us alone.

As the years go by, my life keeps filling up with names like abandoned cemeteries or like an empty history class or a telephone book in a foreign city. And death is when someone behind you keeps calling and calling and you no longer turn around to see who.

And soon, in the coming nights, we will appear, like wandering actors, each in the other's dream and in the dreams of strangers whom we didn't know together.

Where do you feel your soul inside you?" Stretched between my mouth-hole and my asshole, a white thread, not transparent mist, cramped in some corner between two bones, in pain. When it is full it disappears, like a cat.

If only it were possible to grasp the moment when two people first become strangers to each other.

I tried to go out into my time and to know, but I couldn't get any farther than the body of the woman beside me.

Because there is no difference or disparity of form between them (...) "The Torah and the Creator and Israel are one."

A rewarding relationship occurs when there is a common spiritual goal, shared spiritual values and a mutual desire to build a relationship upon a spiritual foundation and for the purpose of connecting to the light of the creator.

Uniting two halves of one soul is inevitable, but timing depends upon your level of spirituality. When the time is ripe, true soul mates find one another even if they are worlds apart— whether physically, on opposite sides of the globe, or spiritually, with contrasting lifestyles and backgrounds. Here's wishing you the courage to keep growing so that you may know – or continue to know – the blessing of oneness.

Always run after opportunities to create peace between people, to find ways to bridge differences, please. Because as long as one person continues to feel separation… …we'll all still feel it. Close the space between you and someone today. Seeing their essential goodness helps a lot.