Quotes About Connection

Turning a corner, I ran into an old acquaintance—one of those long-winded fellows whose conversational powers ignore time and embrace eternity.

Man should strive to see the God in woman, and to help her realize her spiritual nature. He should make her feel that she is with him not merely to satisfy his sensual appetites, but as a companion whom he respects and regards as an expression of the Divine. And woman should look upon man in the same way.

Wisdom is not assimilated with the eyes, but with the atoms

Why come to view my flesh and bones, when I am ever within range of your kutastha (spiritual sight)?

Astrology is the study of man's response to planetary stimuli.

The cohesive force by which all three bodies [causal, astral and physical] are held together is desire. [...] The mere presence of a body signifies that its existence is made possible by unfulfilled desires. pg425, Chapter 43, The resurrection of Sri Yukteswar

he who discards his worldly duties can justify himself only by assuming some kind of responsibility toward a much larger family." The

God can live without man's love; but as the wave cannot live without the ocean, so it is not possible for man to exist without the love of God.

Lahiri Mahasaya often said: 'If you don't invite God to be your summer Guest, He won't come in the winter of your life.

To serve mankind as one's larger Self.

If you send them your loving thoughts continuously now, someday you will surely meet them again. You will know that this life is not the end, but merely one link in the eternal chain of your relationship with your loved ones.

Divine Love says to all, If you love Me, you will love Me not in one being, but in all. Remember, though you try to cage Me in one person, I will destroy in the end the body-frame which holds him. I do so that you may learn to find Me in all.

your experiences of the Divine in terms of love and devotion shall be translated into his terms of fathomless wisdom.

The purpose of life is that you find God and receive directly from Him His all-satisfying eternal love.

The intimate yet tense interrelationship among these three forces -- humans, earth, and fire -- makes my soul tremble. I don't believe creative impulse can exist without the trembling of the soul.

As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.

The soul is like a wild animal—tough, resilient, savvy, self-sufficient and yet exceedingly shy. If we want to see a wild animal, the last thing we should do is to go crashing through the woods, shouting for the creature to come out. But if we are willing to walk quietly into the woods and sit silently for an hour or two at the base of a tree, the creature we are waiting for may well emerge, and out of the corner of an eye we will catch a glimpse of the precious wildness we seek.

The more you know about another person's story, the less possible it is to see that person as your enemy.

That we have evolved capacities for social interaction means that we tend to represent morality and misfortune in a very special way, which makes the connection with supernatural agents extremely easy and apparently obvious.

Consider morality. In some places people say that the gods laid down the rules people live by. In other places the gods or ancestors simply watch people and sanction their misdemeanours. In both cases people make a connection between moral understandings (intuitions, feelings and reasoning about what is ethical and what is not) and supernatural agents (gods, ancestors, spirits).

I will never forget that she cried for me when I was not able to cry for myself.

Grief is only as deep as the love it's replaced

Something else, something I couldn't put my finger on, had made me turn back. Perhaps no more than a feeling that this was my place now, that I had to make my life work here.

Ik zal nooit vergeten dat zij voor me huilde toen ik dat zelf niet kon.