Quotes About Connection

You step out of the shower and the entire nation calms— a drop of lemon-egg shampoo, you smell like bees, a brief kiss, I don't know anything about you—except the spray of freckles on your shoulders! which makes me feel so thrillingly alone. I stand on earth in my pajamas, penis sticking out— for years in your direction.

The main character of any living system is openness.

Love is always a big deal.

For a quick second, when he met my eyes, I knew what he was thinking, too. Malcolm, the troublemaker. Malcolm, the one who won't toe the line. Looking in his eyes—a thing I maybe never did before—it speared me.

I think how amazing it would be if I wasn't behind the scenes, but just one of the throng out on the floor. Right in the swing of things. The thick of it.

Sophia is the best thing that's ever happened to me. I guess this is what all the songs mean when they talk about love. I want to swim in her, swallow her, breathe her.

Living as prayer. I think that is when I am at my best. Because seeing through prayer provides a remarkable clarity. Not in the doctrinal sense, but because it is, at best, the lens of a love for every tattered inch of this earth.

just hope it's still living then. The trees don't know your race or your gender identity or your sexuality. The trees don't expel you

One of the things I have learned about death is this: no matter how grief stricken you are, no matter how much you miss them, yearning for their laughs or hands or eyes, your relationship to the dead continues long after their bodies are gone. Memory is not simply a way of holding on, it is a reencounter. Their visits continue as long as you do..

A la Santa Madre, María la Virgen Bendita: Siento que siempre estás conmigo. No hay palabras para describir la profundidad de mi agradecimiento por tu amor y tus cuidados. Mantén siempre mi corazón cerca al tuyo, madre, tú me llenas por completo, y siempre te amaré. Gracias por aparecerte ante mí en

The love of a single heart can make a world of difference.

I identify it (i.e., Kadesh Barnea) with Mecca.

I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain a dialogue with other people, I guess, or, better still, with oneself, that is to say, one talks or mumbles to oneself.

I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.

Food is about nurturing: not only physical but also emotional nurturing.

TRADITIONS REASSURE US THAT WE BELONG TOGETHER

The state of relaxation of the mouth and jaw is directly correlated to the ability of the cervix, the vagina, and the anus to open to full capacity.

Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it.

Separation secures manifest friendship

E' tutto collegato. Quello che accade ora agli animali, succederà in seguito all'uomo

Ivan and I: the world converging. Malina and I, since we are one: the world diverging.

we take care not to touch each other in public, nor do we look into each other's eyes except furtively, because Ivan must first wash my eyes with his own, removing the images which landed on my retina before his arrival.

For in his presence I grow silent, because the smallest words — yes, now, well, and, but, then, oh! — are so loaded, coming from me to him they have a hundred times their meaning

speak across borders even if borders pass through every word.