Quotes About Connection

What must I say? What must I say? What must I say? What must I say? And finally, What must I say to you?

Some languages, unlike the Indo-European ones, do not separate subject and verb so that an action is never seen as distinct from the actor.

THE FIRST ROOTS CREEP UP I am learning to come upon the tree, slowly, to surprise it For the song its memorizing. The water runs up, the sap Runs down… I will carry water for you, if you ask me. If someone Asks me What differences between trees and me? Each is Beholden to rivers. each knows thirst. In those countries where trees walk, they go barefoot, singing madrigals… excerpt, Collected in: Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature by Lorraine Anderson

Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

The spiritual meaning of love is measured by what it can do. Love is meant to heal. Love is meant to renew. Love is meant to bring us closer to God.

You cannot stand anywhere in the universe that is outside of yourself.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Sex is always about emotions. Good sex is about free emotions; bad sex is about blocked emotions.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.

The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE

Meeting a stranger can be totally fleeting and meaningless, for example, unless you enter the individual's world by finding out at least one thing that is meaningful to his or her life and exchange at lest one genuine feeling. Tuning in to others is a circular flow: you send yourself out toward people; you receive them as they respond to you.

Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.

You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

The direction of life is from duality to unity.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.

Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

it's as if the universe has a sense of humor, since at a deep level it's impossible not to lead a spiritual life… the universe is living through you at this moment. with or without belief in god, the chain of events leading from silent awareness to physical reality remains intact.

Least effort is expended when our actions are motivated by love, because nature is held together by the energy of love.

I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.

The same faint song is heard in everything: "Behold yourself".