Quotes About Connection

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

I draw flowers every day and send them to my friends so they get fresh blooms every morning.

Beyond the constant conjunction of similar objects, and the consequent inference from one to the other, we have no notion of any necessity, or connexion.

I went and took golf lessons so Dad would let me play with him. I was just terrible... but I was able to have a wonderful time just walking around with Dad. I can see the real pleasure of that game.

The word love has become so devalued, we have to put words in front of it, like 'unconditional'.

Our bodies are an expression of our minds, emotions, and spirit.

The extraterrestrials who are dubbed "aliens" are actually other aspects of ourselves. They are not "alien" at all. They are part of us.

Dr Andrew Wakefield, a Canadian-trained gastroenterologist, was vilified and eventually struck off by the General Medical Council (GMC) after rightly making a connection between mercury in vaccines and autism which has soared in unison with mercury in vaccines.

The child was born in the Arab world, and in that sense, Roger and Alice had gone into the land itself, been penetrated by it, bled into its veins (p. 349).

There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.

I consider you mine, because Donna considered you hers.

K' is for communications.

Making love" denoted the manufacture of something that would need to be maintained.

Así como el vínculo inicial de apego permitía el desarrollo del niño, es en última instancia el nuevo vínculo de apego con el terapeuta el que propicia el cambio en el paciente. Parafraseando a Bowlby (1988),

Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, "May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

I'll just quote myself for now; actually, I'll quote what a good friend of mine, David Jenkins responded to a post I made when I was feeling 'pissy.' "Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves." ~ David Jenkins, 2013

Oh my lord," Smiley exclaims. "We've got to roll her off of Billy before he smothers to death.

Why did I write this? " Although I desire that all kinds of readers enjoy my novel, my deepest wish is that it finds those readers that really need it. In a way like when I re-read The Outsiders countless times during reading time in the fourth grade or when I read Kerouac's book is in high school.

Empathy's not standing over a hole looking down and saying you understand. Empathy is having been in that hole yourself.

It's funny how it only takes one person taking the time to show you they care for all that bad shit to not seem so bad for a moment. It's not like the demons go anywhere. What haunts you is still right there when you go back under, but that one gesture from one person can bring you to the surface for a second or two. And for a very long time, all I'd really needed was to come up for air.

You still can't see it and it's right in front of your eyes. It's the reason we're gathered here. The only reason we're here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us.

Let us go one step further and say that other people's consciousnesses can affect your body too. We see that in prayer. Prayer is an expression of consciousness. It is a type of energy. This leads us to a corollary thought that spiritual energy and consciousness are close, and your spirit interacts with consciousness. When you project your consciousness to others, you are actually sending them energy on a subatomic level.