Quotes About Connection

Something as simple as an act of kindness, a compliment, a helping hand to a fellow human being, becomes a way of choosing life.

I think I can communicate with kids because I don't try to communicate with kids. Ninety percent of the children's books patronize the child and say there's a difference between you and me, so you listen to this story. I, for some reason or another, don't do that. I treat the child as an equal.

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It's the most spiritually empowering thing I know, to look up at the night sky and see Orion rising as the autumn closes in at the last moment, and it's got me through some very hard times. When I had a couple of serious bouts of depression in my life the stars were a big factor in pulling me out. People used to say "What's your spirituality?", and I'd say I don't know, but I found out looking at the stars last night and that's what it was.

Educators by the same token must cast their teaching in behavior rather than feelings toward their students.

There is one experience that brings joy or happiness to every living being. The experience of love.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

As an effective teacher, you must not only know that which you would teach—that is, your content—but you must also know those whom you wish to teach.

An eminent Iranian composer, Pezhman Mosleh, has honored me with this gift (the piece of On the Threshold).

Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way of being, a giving to, not a falling for; a mode of relating at large, not an act limited to a single person.

El error y verdadero pecado es la identificación con una idea particular, puesto que allí el crecimiento se obstruye y bloquea. En cambio, sin identificación todo fluye y se fluye en el todo sin ningún obstáculo.

La sensación del mundo físico como entidad externa, independiente y autónoma, se desmorona para quien se percata de esa unidad, y en lugar de una realidad externa inerte y fría, el mundo se vislumbra como lo que es en realidad, un conjunto de procesos no desligados de la propia conciencia.

Yo vengo de una familia de santos. La familia humana". Risë Gilbert.

Para percibir la magia de la Realidad, ésta debe amarse de la misma forma, sin esperar restituciones por ese amor.

Decimos que las entidades físicas son solamente un extracto de lecturas de indicadores y que por debajo de ellas existe una naturaleza que está unida a la nuestra…".

Por otro lado, si consideramos a la conciencia como el dato original, se puede concluir que lo que llamamos fuerza gravitacional está ligada a la conciencia y que, por lo tanto, se puede modificar a través de la acción humana.

Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.

Man is multiplied by the "number of languages" he possesses and speaks. (Los Viajes!)

Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

Preciso es encontrar lo infinitamente grande en lo infinitamente pequeño, para sentir la presencia de Dios.» Pitágoras

Engrandecerás a tu pueblo no elevando los tejados de sus viviendas, sino las almas de sus habitantes.» Epícteto