Quotes About Connection

Only when someone becomes vital do we try to give that first encounter the importance it would later have

There are times," I declared, "when I believe the dead haunt us because we love them too little. We forget them, you see; we don't mean to, but we do.

Thou dost not understand the foolish things that creep into the hearts of us white men when we love a woman, not for her beauty alone, but for something that wise men say lies beyond the black gates of death, and the woman who loves and the man who loves shall yet meet again.

Prayer is the most direct expression of the religious consciousness.

The law served a twofold purpose in connection with the covenant of grace: (1) to increase the consciousness of sin, Rom. 3:20; 4:15; Gal. 3:19; and (2) to be a tutor unto Christ, Gal. 3:24.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

Czasem lepiej jest zostawi? pewne rzeczy w spokoju, pewne sprawy nie powinny w ogóle by? os?dzane czy rozstrzygane i nie powinni?my ro?ci? sobie do tego prawa. Poniewa? nie jest szcz??ciem POSIADANIE rzeczy, lecz BYCIE cz??ci? nich.

consistent caretakers and allowed to interact with one another, that their survival rates improved (Blum, 2002). What better evidence is there that the brain is a social organ requiring positive human connection as much as food and water? Educational experts are guilty of a similar myopathy when they focus on curricular content and test performance rather than the social world of students and teachers.

To establish a bridge of attunement, we rely on many neural systems that receive and send social and emotional information. We use all of this information to create theories about what is on the minds of others.

Clients with painful experiences and frightening symptoms are accustomed to living in a world where others avoid and reject them. Our ability to remain empathically connected to them through the expression of their suffering sets the stage for therapy to be a qualitatively different relationship experience–one where they are accepted, pain and all.

contact—emotional networks integrate with sensory and motor systems to connect social and emotional meaning with behaviors.

Man is a bird without wings and a bird is a man without sorrow.

She] knew that it was not precisely a body that one loved. One loved the man who shone out through the eyes and used its mouth to smile and speak.

In deference to such spectacular carnage it is perhaps perverse to dwell upon one person's death, but we are creatures so constituted that the passing of one friend or one acquaintance has a profounder effect that that of 100,000 strangers. If there is any metaphorical truth in the Jewish proverb that he who saves one life saves the whole world, then there is equal metaphorical truth in the proposition that when one person dies, the whole world dies with them.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.

Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love", which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love builds highways out of dead ends.

There is something about the presence of a cat... that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

The only reason I always try to meet and know the parents better is because it helps me to forgive their children.

No memory is ever alone it's at the end of a trail of memories, a dozen trails that each have their own associations.

O círculo em que podemos ter comunicações reais com outros seres é muito estreito: não se deve buscar ampliá-lo indefinidamente. Aqui só a qualidade importa. Numa comunicação real com um único ser, já estão contidas as relações de todos os homens entre si.

For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring. (Acts 17:26-28)

It were the sort of mist that soaked into your flesh, into your being, so it were like you were one with it...