Quotes About Connection

true that there is much work for all to do in the times ahead. The work you are going to do will be lighter and easier because you are going to connect with your galactic consciousness. You left part of yourself

Was there any meaning to life or to war, that two men should sit together and jump within seconds of each other and yet never meet on the ground below?

You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

When someone dies, the relationship doesn't die with them.

If I had my life to live over again, I would find you sooner so that I could love you longer.

Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

grief is optional in this lifetime. Yes, it's true. You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.

Your loss is not a test, a lesson, something to handle, a gift, or a blessing. Loss is simply what happens to you in life. Meaning is what you make happen Only you can find your own meaning Meaningful connections will heal painful memories

Love and grief come as a package deal. If you love, you will one day know sorrow.

Think about it: when we read, we soul travel, in the sense that we join, or enter, the consciousness of another human. We empathize—we have to—because our experience is enlarged.

Reading is a form of self-identification that works, paradoxically, by encouraging us to identify with others, an abstract process that changes us in the most concrete of ways.

Many people feel they are missing someone

Life is constantly treating us to illusory connections.

synaesthesia—the condition where two or more senses are connected, for example when numbers are seen in colour and every series of numbers forms an image in the mind.

That is no doubt the disadvantage of having intelligent friends. They see straight through you.

Wendell Berry: There appears to be a law that when creatures have reached the level of consciousness, as men have, they must become conscious of the creation; they must learn how they fit into it and what its needs are and what it requires of them, or else pay a terrible penalty; the spirit of creation will go out of them, and they will become destructive; the very earth will depart from them and go where they cannot follow.

Sex, my darling, is often the least important part of a passion. You'll learn that when you get older. - Maria Luisa (Tushi) Strauss

Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you.

The French word copain came about because your friends (copains, from compagnons) are the people with whom you break bread, or share pain.

We cannot read each other's hearts, and sadly, silence is its own pervasive pastime. We are disposed more to assuming masks than we are to revealing the tenderness and freight within that might transform the world. More than any other time in history it seems the man and woman standing in close proximity to each other in a subway car are as far away from each other as two galaxies.

When a woman loves a man, they have gone to swim naked in the stream on a glorious July day with the sound of the waterfall like a chuckle of water rushing over smooth rocks, and there is nothing alien in the universe…

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be.

i have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and i delete it without looking at the profile because that doesn't seem natural. 'cause friendship should not be as easy as that. it's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. or books. omg... U like the outsiders 2... it's like we're the same person! no we're not. it's like we have the same english teacher. there's a difference.

It's one thing to fall in love. It's another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.