Quotes About Connection

I held his energy in my hand. When it was firm, when it was rising, I let it go, eased it down to his inner thigh, watched it spring back up

Alexis de Tocqueville admired the laws that formally established America's democratic order, but he argued that voluntary organizations were the real source of the nation's robust civic life. John Dewey claimed that social connection is predicated on the vitality and depth of close and direct intercourse and attachment. Democracy begins at home, he famously wrote, and its home is the neighborly community.

There will come a time—in the not-so-distant future—when you will no longer need to make a special trip to see me or anyone else to get "attuned" to this new band of frequencies. Soon you'll be sitting in a theater, on an airplane, or on a bus, and you'll simply pick up this new resonance from the person sitting next to you.

The process of healing is to enlighten your life to the greatness of That Which Is in the universe.

these connecting steps come to life at all levels—from the energetic, through mind-body, to the spiritual. The key to understanding this new level of healing is the prefix "re" —reattending, reconnecting, re-regulating, reordering healing.

In a word, connection leads to order and ease; disconnection leads to disorder and disease.

my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit up and he wrapped me in his arms as if it was Christmas morning and I was the best gift imaginable.

Benjamin, we're meant to lose the people we love. How else would we know how important they are to us?

She taught me to play the piano, and what it meant to miss somebody.

It's funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Community On and Off the Internet. Working paper, Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

I don't think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me who I am. I don't think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener.

Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

It is hard to open yourself to someone who might really love you. I kept trying to drive Ken away and he kept passing the test by staying.

I had noticed, for example, how all my infatuations dissolved as soon as I really became friends with a man, became sympathetic to his problems, listened to him kvetch about his wife, or ex-wives, his mother, his children. After that I would like him, perhaps even love him—but without passion.

Is love freedom or is it bondage?

Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the time when they need them. Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

Even now, we have laryngitis from screaming at each other: the dirty little secret of a durable marriage.

Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married.