Quotes About Connection

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Business is a spiritual endeavor, and it brings us closer to one another and closer to God.

But a son, although he is of his father, cannot know his father totally, because the father precedes him; his father has always already lived so much more than the son has, so that the son can never catch up, can never know everything. No wonder the Greeks thought that few sons are the equals of their fathers; that most fall short, all too few surpass them. It's not about value; it's about knowledge.

Our parents are mysterious to us in ways that we can never quite be mysterious to them.

emergent relatedness assumes that the infant from the moment of birth is deeply social in the sense of being designed to engage in and find uniquely salient interactions with other humans.

Love without freedom does not exist.

We cannot do a greater good to another human being than to accord him our naked awareness, devoid of all plan.

Even a (beautiful) figure brought into prominence by the meeting of two eyes affords delight only by the device of its union

One of the causes of our suffering comes from the presence, in the deepest part of ourselves, of a kind of nostalgia for unity that sometimes surfaces with great force not only during infancy and adolescence but also in adulthood.

What the other waits for is to be deeply touched in respect, tremoring vibration, spontaneity, nonprogrammation; with you, in contact with your body, she simply wants to get a taste of limitlessness. She desires you to be her and the creation of the sexual act to be a wonderment because it is always new, without reference, without past. Here is a very great ritual, that of a life, of a work of art. It can happen in a train, on a public bench, on the grass, or in a bed.

You have to really imagine that a person's quest, in a larger sense, gently reconnects the emotional and physical circuits that were left in abandonment or that never had the opportunity to become developed.

What way do I take to get there? You are the way and the destination. How do I start? By entering into profound communication with the reality of your life as it is. How do I find this capacity, develop it? By starting with what touches you or moves you naturally.

The words control, technique, and performance arise from a certain illusion, that of believing that a woman is longing for "a good lay." She is longing for much more than that; she is longing for a deep connection with the totality of her being.

Holding back, performance, technique are profoundly contradictory to total pleasure.

five severed fingers do not make a hand

he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or to the waves crashing on a beach, uttering that which must be said but which must not be heard by anyone.

With gorilla gone, will there be hope for man?

I went out and had a drink. I needed to talk to someone, and solitary drinkers are lucky in this regard— they always have someone to talk to.

We had been taken from The Wild and brought together in one place, because, for some strange reason, people found us interesting.

couldn't go on, and in my anguish at not being able to tell him this, I thought him this, with all the mental power I possessed. He was stunned—as was I when I saw that he'd heard my mental cry.

Tribal people get more out of life.

My death is the life of another, and I will stand again in the windswept grasses and look through the eyes of the fox and take the air with the eagle and run in the track of the deer.

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

WE NOW KNOW TWO HIGHLY important things about people," Ishmael said, "at least according to Taker mythology. One, there's something fundamentally wrong with them, and, two, they have no certain knowledge about how they ought to live—and never will have any. It seems as though there should be a connection between these two things.