Quotes About Connection

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, [...] but to be _with_ each other.

his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They

it's easy to get outside yourself when you're thinking about someone else.*

knew that happiness, health, and security come from devoting yourself to two things—your family and your friends—and anything that doesn't bring you closer to both is pulling you in the wrong direction.

Empathy, the Greeks believed, was a source of strength, not softness; the more you recognized yourself in others and connected with their distress, the more endurance, wisdom, cunning, and determination you could tap into.

Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running.

Because we have to answer to one another, and they did not.

Awareness of the world begins with your feet, he believes.

When you track, you're creating causal connections in your mind, because you didn't actually see what the animal did. That's the essence of physics.

Wilson called those forces the biophilia hypothesis, which literally means "love of living things" but translates more closely to "Your brain may not remember, but your body will never forget that animals have guarded us since the Stone Age." Why

Vigil no acababa de dar en el clavo, pero su instinto le decía que había algún tipo de conexión entre la capacidad de amar y la capacidad de amar correr.

Christopher McDougall

we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain.

había entendido que no corremos para ganarnos los unos a los otros, sino para estar junto a esos otros.

When you run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.'

Vigil couldn't quite put his finger on it, but his gut kept telling him that there was some kind of connection between the capacity to love and the capacity to love running. The engineering was certainly the same: both depended on loosening your grip on your own desires, putting aside what you wanted and appreciating what you got, being patient and forgiving and undemanding.

When your neighbor needs something, he needs you . The person he knows. Not the army. Not the police. You. And if you're not there, someday you'll have to look him in the face and explain.

Perhaps all our troubles—all the violence, obesity, illness, depression, and greed we can't overcome—began when we stopped living as Running People.

You know what kind of nerves are in your feet? The same ones that network into your genitals.

For inspiration," the article noted, "he repeats a saying of the Tarahumara Indians: 'When you run on the earth and run with the earth, you can run forever.'

We like to think of ourselves as masters of our own destinies, as lone wolves in a dog-eat-dog world, but guess what: Dogs don't eat dogs. They work together. As do most species. As do we.

I love my children beyond all reason. They're my joy, even when they're wild with kid energy.

My father, who has derived such happiness from his childhood, found in me the companion with who, he could return there.