Quotes About Connection

You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.

Remember you are everything, or you are nothing. If you are everything, then your heart is so big it can hold all of humanity within itself, you have no jealousy or narrowness. You are in the heart of every creature and every creature is in your heart. There is only bliss. Intro to Part 2, Chapter 4. Credit given to Swami Purna.

The world is chaotic. All artists know this, but they try to make sense of it. Sophia has made sense of it for him. She has stitched it together like the most beautiful cloak. Her love has sewn it together and they can wrap it around themselves and be safe from the world. Nobody can reach them.

I'm like a mussel, closed in my shell. It's only you who can open me.

Deborah Moggach

So we sit, inside our separate skins, and every now and then lean forward to gaze hard at another person and read his or her looks. We ask, 'how's the weather in there?' And if they can answer, if they so choose, we're privileged to share for a brief time what it means to be other than who we are. Might it be that animals share--to varying degrees, inside their varied skins--these same shadowy contents from which love, terror, grief, compassion, and shame spring?

She wasn't sure who were family & who were friends, and maybe they all were both, and maybe it didn't matter one bit.

These new people were her people. So what that she'd only recently met these women. In their hearts they were all the same: women yearning for rich lives, someone to love & someone to love them in return, friends to laugh with, drink with & cry with.

What is in our hearts is never a one-way street. Only as children when we're too young to understand the signs do we love unrequitedly. If you love, it's because you feel its power reflected back on you.

Meditation...brings us to union with the true self, the one in ourself and in others. We develop deep devotion to this one when we realise that it is the one who is in all, loves us through all and loves all through us.

Every time a hillbilly hears his cell phone ring, an angel gets a beer.

You never know how a person you meet will impact your destiny. Reach out with an intent to serve, and see where that will take you.

Having a sense of place may by now require a continual act of imagination.

One woman put it this way: "...I'm a compassionate person, but I also don't want to be friends with somebody who doesn't full show up as well.

Maybe most of all, Karl is like family because of how I feel when I'm around him: completely and unself-consciously myself.

You're so real. That's why we love you." ... Her friend's response reflected the reciprocity of showing vulnerability. It is a gift not only to the one who has the meltdown but also to the ones who witness it.

If my colleague's reaction is typical, imagine how often women who think they are displaying a positive quality—connection— are misjudged by men who perceive them as revealing a lack of independence, which the men regard as synonymous with incompetence and insecurity.

I'll just be a memory," he says. "There are so many people who were so real to me in their lives, and now they're just memories.

These are the signals that combine with what is said to make up the devices we use to show we're listening, interested, sympathetic, or teasing—and that we're the right sort of people.

Everything we say to each other echoes with meanings left over from our past experience— both our history talking to the person before us at this moment and our history talking to others. This is especially true in the family— and our history of family talk is like a prism through which all other conversations (and relationships) are refracted.

the metamessage yields heart meaning.

Our deepest wish is to be understood and approved of by our mothers and our daughters. We can get closer to that goal by listening to the ways we talk to each other, and by learning to talk to each other in new ways.

A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world.

We all want, above all, to be heard. We want to be understood—heard for what we think we are saying, for what we know we meant.