Quotes About Connection

Fiecare reuniune are un moment anume in care se sparge. Ajuns la maturitate, mi se intampla de multe ori sa incerc sa identific acest moment, temandu-ma in acelasi timp, de inevitabilul care urmeaza sa se produca. Musafirii vor repeta aceleasi poante, iar la un moment dat, va fi prea mult - sau vei ramane fara iarba sau bautura, si-ti dai astfel seama ca atat ati avut in comun.

looked at her picture on Facebook and thought, Of course.

When I bleat here on page seventeen, do you want me to just bleat or to really let go and 'bleat, bleat'? " I asked. "I feel like 'bleat, bleating,' but if Mother/Destroyer is going to be crawling through the birth canal of concertina wire, I don't want to steal focus, you know what I mean?" He did. That was the scary part, that someone understood me.

It is not unpleasant to hold someone else's warm teeth in your hand...

I left the store determined that when and if it was ever my turn and I was the author seated at that table, I was going to engage people until they grew old, or at least thirsty. Well, all right, then, they'd say, looking past me for the nearest exit, let me let you go. I would see them until they wilted.

the taste of warm rain; the smell of a baby; the din of a swollen river, rushing past her tree and onward to infinity.

To say "I love you," Yanomami Indians of the Amazon say, "Ya pihi irakema," meaning "I have been contaminated by your being"—a part of you has entered me, and it lives and grows.

There was nothing wrong with being simply, completely human.

Recent studies show, in fact, that it's not only the love of a husband, a wife, or children that can enable morale to remain strong and slow the progression of illness, but also the simple love and caring attention of friends old and new.

Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves. This we know: the earth does not belong to man—man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. All things are connected.125

Immune cells are also sensitive to our emotions. They react positively to emotional states characterized by a sense of well-being and a feeling that we are connected to those around us. It's as if our immune cells mobilize all the better when they are in the service of a life that is objectively worth living.

When we respect the needs and bodies of the animals that feed us, our own bodies are better balanced

A great book allows me to leap over that wall: in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness, I feel human and unalone.

I'm interested in knowing the secrets that connect human beings. At the very deepest level, all our secrets are the same.

Paper is brain interface. Paul Saffo

I began experimenting with visualizing the rising sun coming up in people's chests as I talked with them. It began to transform my listening.

Give children a chance to love the earth before we ask them to save it.

The you must be there for the I to find itself. Trust in you gives me trust in myself. In the encounter between the you and the I, faith is born. I am so truly I because I have faith in you. Only the I that comes about through faith can have faith.

friends will be much apart.they will respect more other's privacy than their communion.

Se equivoca; las mujeres necesitamos otra información sobre un hombre como ése. No conocemos la calidez de su voz, si conversa mirando a los ojos, si su abrazo nos hace sentir pequeñas. A una mujer no le interesa un hombre que necesita ser rescatado. Como empleado, tal vez, concluye, pero para amar a un hombre, el alma buena es lo de menos.

Descubrí que los amigos nunca se apenan del todo en tu desgracia, porque les ofrece la más hermosa oportunidad para demostrate cuánto les importas, cuánto se preocupan por ti, cuán geneerosa es su disposición.

Yo atravesé el duelo gracias a ellos y descubrí que los amigos nunca se apenan del todo en tu desgracia, porque les ofrece la más hermosa oportunidad para demostrarte cuánto les importas, cuánto se preocupan por ti, cuán generosa es su disposición.

Miraba a Bárbara. Ahora tan lejana. Hasta tal punto habíamos retrocedido que yo casi estaba esperando que alguien nos presentara.

De ahí que la amistad aparezca representada por pactos de sangre, lealtades eternas e incluso mitificada como una variante del amor más profunda que el vulgar afecto de las parejas. No debe de ser tan sólido el vínculo cuando la lista de amigos perdidos es siempre mayor que la de amigos conservados.