Quotes About Connection

Your very eyes. How they have always been for me the command to obey, the inviolable and beautiful commandment. No, no, I'm not telling lies. Your appearance in the doorway! ... You have been my body's health. Whenever I have read a book, it was you I was reading, not the book, you were the book. You were, you were.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Sadly, without some form of therapy or intervention, individuals like Denise often don't make the connection between their childhood trauma and their adult-life sexual problems. Due to this lack of understanding and association, many of these folks think of themselves as

That experience allowed me to see this therapeutic principle in action," Stanton said. "You just can't organize yourself without a connection to another human being, and you can't make that connection if you embalm yourself with drugs.

I'd always thought praying was words directed toward God, but this was God touching me.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. ST. JEROME

she focused on prayer—the most important activity of any Christian.

If you realize you are without form, that you are unlimited, what is there to be seen apart [a "separate" body]? There is no connection, during sleep, with the body, the senses, and the mind: on waking up, you identify yourself with them. All that you have to do, hereafter, is see that you do not identify your self with them.

he is that Self. Then, only, can he view everything as a form of the Self.

Being omni-present—as every spiritual and religious tradition declares—it must of necessity be as immediate to us as is our every heartbeat, our every breath. Therefore, there is nowhere that we need to go, and nothing that we need to do, in order to be "in contact" with the Absolute.

from natural selection's point of view, status assistance is the main purpose of friendship.

Friendship, affection, trust—these are the things that, long before people signed contracts, long before they wrote down laws, held human societies together.

The great American psychologist William James wrote, "Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw." In that sense, he observed, "our immediate family is a part of ourselves. Our father and mother, our wife and babes, are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. When they die, a part of our very selves is gone.

Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw." In that sense, he observed, "our immediate family is a part of ourselves. Our father and mother, our wife and babes, are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. When they die, a part of our very selves is gone.

I don't have a hostile disposition toward humankind per se. In fact, I feel quite warmly toward humankind. It's individual humans I have trouble with.

what we call the "self" is in such constant causal interaction with its environment, is so pervasively influenced by the world out there

There are too many people, and too few human beings.

Strangers are friends that you have yet to meet.

No tendremos nunca contacto sexual. Para hacer más duradero nuestro amor, refrenaremos el deseo, y tampoco la besaré en la boca, sino en la mano.

Y sin embargo, yo necesito amar a alguien, darme forzosamente a alguien.

Quando si ride ci si lascia andare, si è nudi, ci si scopre. Quando uno ride, vedi un po' la sua anima. E poi quando si ride ci si muove, ci si scuote, come un albero, e si lascia per terra le cose che gli altri possono vedere e magari cogliere. Gli avari e coloro che non hanno niente da offrire, infatti, non ridono.

You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love. The razor-sharp edges of companionship and love.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him....