Quotes About Connection

But we're all looking for the place we belong. And what is home, anyway, but what we cobble together out of our changing selves? Maybe there isn't any it, as my friend said, only the longing

She was tired of relationships whose greatest intimacy consisted of sitting up all night weeping while love died.

To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.

The Sabbath is the most precious present mankind has received from the treasure house of God. All week we think: The spirit is too far away, and we succumb to spiritual absenteeism, or at best we pray: Send us a little of Thy spirit. On the Sabbath the spirit stands and pleads: Accept all excellence from me …

The Sabbath is the presence of God in the world, open to the soul of man." God is not in things of space, but in moments of time.

There is a word that is seldom said, a word for an emotion almost too deep to be expressed: the love of the Sabbath.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Within our awe we only know that all we own we owe.

With information we are alone; in appreciation we are with all things.

There is no reverence for God without reverence for man. Love of man is the way to the love of God.

The Sabbath is holiness in time.

Just as the Shechinah is in exile, so is the Torah in exile.

It is not we who long for a day of rest, but the Sabbath spirit that is lonely and longs for us.

Judaism is God's quest for man.

The Bible is to be understood by the spirit that grows with it, wrestles with it, and prays with it.

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

Just as man is not alone in what he is, he is not alone in what he does. A mitsvah is an act which God and man have in common.

The plea is not to obey what He wills but to do what He is.

To the religious man it is as if things stood with their backs to him, their faces turned to God, as if the glory of things consisted in their being an object of divine care.

Unless we are involved, the problem is not present.

Philosophers do not expend their power and passion unless they themselves are affected. The soul only communes with itself when the heart is stirred.

The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.