Quotes About Connection

Loneliness can be a prison, but we have keys. You needn't wait for someone to open the bars. If you can make a pot of chili and use a cell phone, then you can create community.

Cloud and Townsend suggest two questions to regularly ask the closest people in your life: What do I do that draws you toward me? What do I do that pushes you away?

I want a legacy dripping with human connection, up to its eyeballs in memories and adventures and weathered storms and gladness. I hope to leave a wake of victory, a life of full integrity. I want to say it all, risk it all, own it all.

the beginning of time, creation encountered its first problem: "It is not good for the man to be alone." Thus history began with human connection. Two are better than one, and togetherness is always superior to loneliness.

I've discovered reduced consumption doesn't equal reduced community or reduced contentment. There is something liberating about unplugging the machine to discover the heartbeat of life still thumping.

Send kindness out in big, generous waves, send it near and far, send it through texts and e-mails and calls and words and hugs, send it by showing up, send it by proximity, send it in casseroles, send it with a well-timed "me too," send it with abandon.

What makes you feel strong and fully alive? What lights you up and gives you energy just thinking about it? Who would you be to your village if you had one? BECOME AN INTEGRAL PART OF SOMETHING. Whether it's a knitting group, dance troupe, church, kayaking club, or homeschool collective, commit to growing community around one area of your life that enlivens you or fills a need.

It's about creating a place to belong before people are expected to behave or even believe.

A shared table is the supreme expression of hospitality in every culture on earth. When your worn-out kitchen table hosts good people and good conversation, when it provides a safe place to break bread and share wine, your house becomes a sanctuary, holy as a cathedral. I've left a friend's table as sanctified and renewed as any church service. If you have a porch, then you have an altar to gather around.

It was hard to make room for my friends. But I did it.

Sleepover Girls

The Universe is holding you in her arms - lean in

You are loved, loving and loveable.

The people you surround yourself with are excellent mirrors for who you are and how much, or how little, you love yourself.

You're here. I'm here. I love you. I'm gonna pee all over the floor about it.

And still, after all this time,       the Sun has never said to the Earth,       ââ'¬Å"You owe me."       Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky. —Rumi

We would be wise to take more of our cues from the beasts and babies. All

when you show up disappointed or angry or guilty or oblivious instead of being grateful, you're at a lower frequency and thereby less connected to Source Energy and in a less powerful state to manifest good feeling things and experiences into your life.

And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky. —Rumi

All of us are connected to this limitless power and most of us aren't using but a fraction of it.

We need people to feel happy and fulfilled and loved so they don't take their shit out on themselves and other people and the planet and our animal friends.

My friend's dog is so happy to see her every single time she walks in the door it's like she's about to free him from forty years of imprisonment.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous." When you learn to consciously master the energetic

You need to raise your frequency to match the vibration of the one you want to tune into.