Quotes About Connection

Humanity was composed of separate individuals now, but an embryo at early stages was also nothing more than a ball of separate cells. But these separate cells would ultimately become connected in wondrous ways to create something unimaginably greater than themselves.

And you can't be told the essence of a person, anyway. That's something you have to experience

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

And yet there she was. The possible felicitous future. The hope we all crave. Can we do this? Can we somehow find a way of making each other happy? And, in turn, remind ourselves: we are not alone in the dark. It's what we all want. Isn't it?

But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby--and the baby of you--and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about. (from Mostly Harmless)

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.

You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.

My dear Vincent

A strange, pale figure emerged—Pendergast?—and she felt herself suddenly in his arms, lifted bodily as if she were a child again, her head cradled against his chest. She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.

digital media are biased away from the local, and toward dislocation.

A baby starved of social contact has difficulty developing a regulated nervous system. Young men with few social acquaintances develop high adrenaline levels. Lonely students have low levels of immune cells. Prison inmates prefer violence to solitary confinement. In the US, social isolation is a greater public health problem than obesity.

Limbic consonance is the little-known process through which the mood of a room changes when a happy or nervous person walks in.

Human beings connect so easily, it's as if we share the same brains.

Don't just invest in ammo and electric fences, invest in people and relationships.

People almost never change without first feeling understood.

Because good listening requires an open and honest curiosity about the other person, and a willingness and ability to keep the spotlight on them. Buried emotions draw the spotlight back to us. Instead of wondering, "How does what they are saying make sense?

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

I have long said that good teaching consists in loving the subject you are teaching in the presence of students whom you also love.

In giving a gift, you are attached to it. In receiving a gift, the blessing that comes to the giver is your chief delight.

Collections do not leave the collector unaffected. The art of collecting results in a certain turn of mind.

the most contagious form of teaching is when an instructor loves his material in the presence of others—whom he also loves.

used to describe some occult practice, related to drug use—potions, drugs, and so forth. This means that the translation of sorcery in Galatians 5:20 is probably a good one. But even today, the connection between drug use and occult practices is not entirely severed. But even when there is no occultism, this does not make the prohibition of pharmakeia irrelevant to the modern "secular" drug user. Ancient drug use was