Quotes About Connection

I love your taste, my shundori," he murmured, and she felt his body tense beneath her. "I can't get enough of it. I can't get enough of you.

He wanted to offer her the comfort of his home, shelter in his arms, pleasure from his body.

He hadn't lived until he'd discovered Isabella, and the fact that he had somehow managed to give his heart to a person he didn't truly know still baffled him. But

People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.

After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.

Children and mothers never truly part--Bound in the beating of each other's hearts.

Animals give so much love. What would a heaven be without them?

Religion really means to rejoin that which seems to be separate.

Ego says: I want someone to fill me up. Spirit says: I'll have someone to help me wake up, to challenge my blind spots and be a companion and playmate on the journey.

I want this music and this dawn and the warmth of your cheek against mine. —R

there is a circular relationship between our ability to know and love another and our ability to know and love ourselves.

Sufism is about connecting with the intuitive parts of ourselves so that we can attune to the highest vibration in the universe, which is pure love. It's about joining together in the mystical heart.

Just as children thrive with loving kindness from a caregiver, so too we are sustained by friendship, spiritual nurture, and a sense of belonging throughout our lives. 34.

Some of the true signs of being unstuck are friendliness, lightheartedness, receptivity, and joy. It's a friendliness born of aliveness, awe, and fascination. You become able to look kindly into the eyes of others without fear because there's nothing in the way—no shame, judgments, secrets, or agitation. Authentic warmth and friendliness are hallmarks of people who are free in their hearts and in their lives.

And, for her father, it seemed as if it were a home-like, comfortable thought to him, that her mother had one of her children with her. He called her the first link of his Daisy Chain drawn up out of sight; and, during the quiet days that ensued, he seemed as it were to be lifted above grief, dwelling upon hope.

One can't lightly part with a man one has seen at church every Sunday of one's life, and exchanged so many friendly words with over his counter. 'Tis a strong bond of neighbourliness in a small place like this, and, as one grows old, changes come heavier—'the clouds return again after the rain.

like Ariel released from his tree prison, a beautiful human being leaps out of many a human prison at the touch of sympathy .

Our only means of true intimacy with a child is the power of recovering our own childhood.

Now I will burn you back, I will burn you through, Though I am damned for it we two will lie And burn, here where the starlings fly

You were sunrise to me rise and warm and streaming.' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

before I die I want to see The world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes

A Quoi Bon Dire" Seventeen years ago you said Something that sounded like Good-bye; And everybody thinks that you are dead, But I. So I, as I grow stiff and cold To this and that say Good-bye too; And everybody sees that I am old But you. And one fine morning in a sunny lane Some boy and girl will meet and kiss and swear That nobody can love their way again, While over there You will have smiled, I shall have tossed your hair.

It was not you, it was your eyes – I spoke to them.

You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew