Quotes About Connection

The present moment is really all that we have. The only place you can really love another person is in the present.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Love creates a communion with life. Love expands us, connects us, sweetens us, ennobles us. Love springs up in tender concern, it blossoms into caring action. It makes beauty out of all we touch. In any moment we can step beyond our small self and embrace each other as beloved parts of a whole.

It is not enough to know that love and forgiveness are possible. We have to find ways to bring them to life.

The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.

And as to me, I know of nothing else but miracles. WALT WHITMAN

George Washington Carver explained, "Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough." Mindfulness is this kind

When we feel anger toward someone, we can consider that he or she is a being just like us, who has faced much suffering in life.

It's not about you. It's about us. Life is difficult for everyone.

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

For instance, the near enemy of love is attachment. It masquerades as love, it feels like love, but it is essentially different.

There is a palpable relief when I teach the perspective of nobility, of training in compassion, of non-religious ways to transform suffering and nurture our sacred connection to life.

All other spiritual teachings are in vain if we cannot love. Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if, with our hearts, we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given.

Notice when you are open, how others relax their own defensiveness. Let yourself be curious, loving, and concerned. Learn to see in new ways. It's never too late to open your heart and mind.

Hold yourself as a mother holds her beloved child. The Buddha

What is man," said Chief Seattle, "without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to man.

You may have heard of "out-of-the-body experiences," full of lights and visions. A true spiritual path demands something more challenging, what could be called an "in-the-body experience." We must connect to our body, to our feelings, to our life just now, if we are to awaken.

There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.

Through awareness of the body, we remember who we truly are.

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

When a bell rings, is it the bell we hear, the air, the sound at our ears, or is it our brain that rings? It is all of these things. As the Taoists say, "The between is ringing." The sound of the bell is here to be heard everywhere—in the eyes of every person we meet, in every tree and insect, in every breath we take.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

I desire to be with you. I miss you. I feel lonely when I can't see you. I am obsessed with you, fascinated by you, infatuated with you. I hunger for your taste, your smell, the feel of your soul touching mine.