Quotes About Connection

In the most cosmic and most minute ways, physical experience springs from inner reality. Events are initiated from within and then appear without.

Often we try to contact 'our source,' or the universe, or God, or whatever while acting as if that creative force is everywhere except where we are; as if it forms all of nature but ourselves. But we are each our own contacts with the universe. We are the universe as it transforms itself into private persons. Somehow we open up inside, and what we are intersects with what the universe is.

The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.

She made love to break love.

I think everything has value, absolute value, a child, a house, a day's work, the sky. But nothing will save us. We were never meant to be saved. What were we meant for then? To love the whole damned world.

Who you are shapes how you are loved.

In this flirtation he was conducting, he had had to rely entirely on his personality, never a good idea.

The real mystery was how your farm bound you to it, so tightly that you would pay any price (literally, in interest) or make any sacrifice just to take these steps across this familiar undulating ground time and time again.

It was one of life's treats, wasn't it, paying a visit to your past, swinging like a ball on a string away from the person you loved, always knowing that the string must pull you back, and you would be oh so glad to get there.

It was one of life's treats, wasn't it, paying a visit to your past, swinging like a ball on a string away from the person you loved, always knowing that the string must pull you back, and you would be oh so glad to get there.

I had been with my father so constantly for so long that I knew less and less about him with every passing year. Every meaningful image was jumbled together with the countless moments of our daily life defeating my efforts to gain some perspective.

was born on your birthday!" "Yup," said Eloise. "March 13.

The novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness.

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.

the novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness. But

Arthur said, You must know that you don't love children for being good or bad. I know you know that. Why do you love them? Because you do, said Arthur. Because they don't know what's coming and maybe you do.

Holiday Association.

Frankie sticking his tongue out. Joe knew that Frankie knew that Joe knew he was sticking his tongue out, so it was no use to pretend

Hay cosas que podemos hacer sin problema en nuestra familia –comer tranquilamente, prestar dinero, contar secretos–, pero cuando nos juntamos, los ecos del pasado nos desbordan.

If she had been asked to describe him, she would have said that he was the exact spot where the sea touches land, the precise moment of the final reach of the surf. That was the place and time of him. She would forever, then, seek shorelines and beaches.

Hardly anybody, he said, understands how essential shit is to holding things together.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

I must fill myself with sorrow if I am to give you what you want.

Now you must close your eyes. Yes, that is it. Selinda, you, too. Good. Good. Bring in the dark that I may teach you to breathe. For it is breath that is behind words. And words that are the shapers of knowledge. And knowledge that is the base of understanding. And understanding, the link between sister and sister." And