Quotes About Connection

I think the secret of the world lies in the C major scale. The universe opens its doors when a major scale is played. There's stuff going on in a major scale that is a direct connection to divine, universal hugeness.

We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

We have to be nice to ourselves and others in order for life to run smoothly. This is just how it goes: a fun little game of the universe we like to sometimes call karma.

I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.

The universe is dynamic. When we are creative, we are the most alive and in touch with it.

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe.

The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

We have to get back to universities being more focused on education and more connected on what they educate students for to the jobs that actually exist.

I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the mountains. They speak English to foreigners, but what people say to each other is much more important than what they say to you.

I love the University of Florida and never wanted to leave.

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some of my subject.

Cory Booker I've known since 1993. We used to be part of the L'Chaim Society at Oxford University together.

I've got a really tight group of friends from university and school who help me forget what I do and keep me grounded.

Everything I ever will be is because of Texas A&M University.

I don't think I'm an unkind person, I don't think my books are unkind, and I don't think my readers are unkind.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

People remain unknowable to us, even people that we're very close to. And I think the same goes for our own selves.

To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.

If you fall in love with a woman, there's this unknown thing that gives you a force and energy, and music is like that, too. If I lived to be 2000, I'd never know anything about music. And that's great.

I'm a child of the Earth, postcode unknown.

I wanted to move away from Holland for my work because I felt that things would be better for me in England. But when I heard Joy Division's 'Unknown Pleasures', that pushed me towards making the move and making it real. I met them within 12 days of moving to England.