Quotes About Connection

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

The flowering of love is meditation.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.

If I can help Americans to understand China, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I will feel very rewarded. I

I no longer worried that she was a landlord's wife. She was my grandmother.

I am the life-force power of the universe. I am the life-force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form, at one with all that is.

Most important, I had to be willing to try. The try is everything. The try is me saying to my brain, hey, I value this connection and I want it to happen. I may have to try, try, and try again with no results for a thousand times before I get even an inkling of a result, but if I don't try, it may never happen. G.G.

To be compassionate is to move into the right here, right now with an open heart consciousness and a willingness to be supportive.

In our own genetic profile, believe it or not, scientific evidence indicates that we humans share 99.4% of our total DNA sequences with the chimpanzee.

value by never saying "me too" or showing their vulnerable underbelly.

Hate people on an individual basis only - you must actually get to know someone at least slightly before you can properly hate him or her.

I never crush a relationship dead, I once boasted. Meaning: I always leave something in case I want to pick it up later.)

Friendship is the most important thing to Mr. Aquarius. It's a thing of beauty and inspiration to this highly gentle man.

He loves to communicate, so if you let him know it's safe to be honest, he will tell you what he really thinks and feels.

It only looked as though we were making the journey in two separate boats. The journey was ours, together, and the burden of having someone to watch out for, someone to care about more than myself, both deepened the risk and heightened the joy.

Most Americans had only ever heard national political candidates shouting, trying to project their voices across a banquet hall or a football field. Hearing Roosevelt speak quietly and calmly, as if he were sitting across the kitchen table, having a reasonable argument with you, earned him Americans' dedicated affection. "It was a God-given gift," his wife said. He "could talk to people so that they felt he was talking to them individually.

I haven't been able to stop thinking of you. One way or another you were always out of reach... I think I'm in love with you... Actually no, that's not true. I know I am.

This not flirting and just-being-friends business was going to be bloody hard.

Sometimes you could meet a complete stranger and just know you really liked them.

The spiders, honeybees, yellow jackets, and mud daubers: these insects still speak - a language that is older than humans. The buffalo, elk, wolf, coyote -they still talk too. It's we, the people, who have forgotten how to listen. [Osage Spider Story, an Osage Legend, told by Archie Mason, Jr]

We may lose the sense of totality almost at once, but the psyche and body have experienced what wholeness is. They can then reconnect to that still point as to a tuning fork.