Quotes About Connection

Dance is a place I go to know myself and the world experientially and intellectually.

Ceaseless. Almost too much for this small frame. You make me part of the sky.

But somewhere in America, between the freeways and the Food-4-Less, between the filling stations and the 5-o-'clock news, behind the blue blinking light coming off the TV, there is a space, an empty space, between us, around us, inside us, that inevitable, desperate, begs to be filled up. And nothing, not shame, not God, not a new microwave, not a wide-screen TV or that new diet with grapefruits, can ever, ever fill it. Underneath all that white noise there's a lack.

Just so you know, I fucking loved you. I fucking loved the daylights out of you.

I'm interested in having a relationship with the world that's not my own.

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

That life isn't some difficult, complicated thing. You live, you love, and you laugh, and you cry when you need to." "People have done that for eons, and if we keep it up there won't be any more people within a few decades." He shook his head. "No, that's not the answer.

People, not just writers, are attracted to New Orleans because it's full of stories and listeners who love nothing better to do than to listen to them.

Poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

Among God's creations, two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes in order not to be seperated from the man. -Andres Segovia

A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty.

A poem, novel or play that does not in some sense relate to previous texts is, in fact, literally unimaginable.

Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

And at that second, Greg felt like Maura's smile had to be worth at least a million dollars.

Mrs. Byrne." Mrs. Byrne smiled. "Hello, Nora. You look a little down. Hard day?" I nodded and said, "Yeah.

One of the most extraordinary things about being a spiritual teacher is the rare privilege of being able to look deeply into the very souls of many human beings at the same time.

We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.

By being published, any author's words cease to be his own, but rather belong to his reader.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving across time, coming to me in every language of the world, and it sounds like pure love.

My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I'm unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can so perfectly communicate; in losing my skin to the fire, I also lost the opportunity to make it disappear with another person.