Quotes About Connection

I know you are reading this poem which is not in your language guessing at some words while others keep you reading and I want to know which words they are.

Over and over, starting to wake I dive back to discover you

I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons

I feel more helpless with you than without you.

Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other. The materials are here for the deepest mutuality and the most painful estrangement.

I touch you knowing we weren't born tomorrow, and somehow, each of us will help the other live, and somewhere, each of us must help the other die.

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

you look at me like an emergency

The way they perceive the world suddenly changes, and they find themselves without any sense of separation between themselves and the rest of the world.

To be intimate is to feel the silence, the space that everything is happening in.

The more in harmony you are with the flow of your own existence, the more magical life becomes.

Awakeness is not moving back from, trying to explain, trying to fix, or get rid of. Awakeness, when it's allowed to be experienced, is a deep love and caring for what is. Love is always throwing itself into the moment, here and now, fully abandoning itself into now. To be in relationship in this way is simple. It is humble. It is very intimate. Then you can meet another person in a whole different way.

Religion's primary function is to awaken within us the experience of the sublime and to connect us with the mystery of existence.

Freedom is the realization that everything and everybody gets to be exactly as they are. Unless we've come to that point, unless we've seen that this is how reality sees things, then we're actually withholding freedom from the world. We're seeing it as a possession, and we're only concerned with ourselves. How good I can feel? How free I can feel? True freedom is a gift to everything and everybody.

One of the most common of these traps is a sense of meaninglessness. From our new view of reality, we are free from the egoic desire to find meaning. We see that the ego's desire to find meaning in life is actually a substitute for the perception of being life itself. The search for meaning in life is a surrogate for the knowledge that we are life. Only someone who is disconnected from life itself will seek meaning. Only someone disconnected from life will look for purpose.

Sincere students find sincere teachers, and sincere teachers find sincere students. The two go together like a box and its lid. (p. 108)

This is how I love you, and this is how you shall love all beings and all things.

It's good to be reminded that hubris, left unchecked, can have serious consequences in our lives. If we don't notice soon enough, we might just realize too late that we've lost some very important things in our lives. The beauty of this story is that it reminds us: keep your feet firmly planted on the soil, keep your consciousness and your heart open, and stay available to this relative world and all the human beings within it.

Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind." (p. 29)

Hungry wailing standeth not aloof.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?

What is pleasanter than the tie of host and guest?

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what he gets if he loses both.