Quotes About Connection

It isn't really magic, except that it is. It's not magic that reaches into the world ands changes things. It's all inside my body. I thought, sitting there, that everything is magic. Using things connects them to you, being in the world connects you to the world, the sun streams down magic and people and animals and plants grow from sunlight and the world turns and everything is magic.

You couldn't get worse food, or food more detached from nature, if you tried. If you have an apple, you're connected to an apple tree. If you have a dish of set custard and half a glace cherry you're not connected to anything.

Telephone conversations are so inadequate, so lacking in expression and gesture and everything.

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic.

did an exercise at the end of every day, if I could keep awake long enough, when I tried to imagine the inner significance of everyone who had spoken to me that day. Before

I got to help make dinner. You can't imagine the pleasure of wiping mushrooms and grating cheese when you haven't had a chance to do it for a long time. Then eating food you have cooked, or help cook, always tastes so much better. Auntie

Em Diadorim, penso também – mas Diadorim é a minha neblina...

Eu não podia tão depressa fechar meu coração a ele. Sabia disso. Senti.

Solo è possibile vivere vicino a un altro, e conoscere un'altra persona, senza pericolo di odio, se si ha amore. Qualsiasi amore già è un poco salute, un riposo nella pazzia.

É de notar que o ar vem do ar. De sofrer e amar, a gente não se desafaz.

Ah, il fiore dell'amore ha molti nomi

E, dico a vossignoria come è che io volevo bene a Diadorim: ed è che, in nessun momento, nessuna volta, mai io ebbi voglia di ridermi di lui.

O lugar onde esbarramos, no É-Já, era logo depois da ponte de pau, que estando esburacada:

I must live a little each day, greet the sun as it rises and revel in its setting, swim naked, sip coffee and wine by the shore, generate new ideas, admire myself, talk to animals, meditate, laugh, risk adventures. I must try to be soft, not hard; fluid, not rigid; tender, not cold; find rather than seek. I have been embraced by the sea, tested by its elements, emptied of anxiety, cleansed with fresh thought. In the process, I have recovered myself.

I couldn't imagine life unless I could continue to have powerful experiences in the wild, and I never wanted to be in a place where I wanted to do something but my body couldn't....

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.

Only you and I can help the sun rise each coming morning. If we don't, it may drench itself out in sorrow. You special, miraculous, unrepeatable, fragile, fearful, tender, lost, sparkling ruby emerald jewel, rainbow splendor person. It's up to you.

What the younger generations don't have are letters." … "Why bother when you can e-mail, phone or text." … "As we contact each other more and more", … "there is, oddly, nothing to show for it.

I was laughing with God,' Elizabeth said in her Italian journal. In the years since, she had come to know the peace that comes from finding God everywhere, in everything, in everyone. As Gandhi would one day put it, 'If you don't find God in next person you meet, it's a waste of time to look further.

I've never said this to a girl before." I bit my lip, waiting. "Well..." He looked down. "I'm not sure how to say this." He took a deep breath and announced, "I really like fighting evil with you.

Sometimes the best thing that can happen to a person is to have a puppy lick your face.

He stood up, put the tree back under the grow light. 'There. That's what's going to happen to us. It's called grafting. Taking something from one place and fixing it to another until they grow together. We didn't start from the same tree, but we're going to grow together like we did.

I'm working hard to have a good life. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people, the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over, too.

I've got my Replogle globe, because you've got to keep a world view, you can't just live like you're the only person on the planet who matters