Quotes About Connection

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

In fact, poetry has always been like archives that peoples have continually used to serve their feelings, thoughts, national identities and cultures, and it has served as a factor uniting different historical periods. Those who had lost contact with their past for a certain period found and experienced the expression of their own selves in poetry, and the were able to see their history as a whole in it.

From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soullessness of men.

The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.

Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness.

A gull planed steeply over their heads, a precarious flash of white against the windy blue sky. The short, hacking cry of a baby seemed to merge seamlessly for a moment with the gull's repetitive wail, as if they were one species. One species, Falkender thought, raucous and scavenging; one species calling out in pain. To be human is to be mixed and miscegenated like this. To be lost.

It's 2444. We're all someone.

The Arpanet was up and running for real

Our relationship with God, not our doing, is the source of our being.

If you want a good litmus test of your spiritual growth, simply examine the nature and quality of your relationships with others.

What matters most is what lasts the longest and families are forever.

Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

What matters most is what lasts longest, and our families are for eternity.

We cannot let another person into our hearts or minds unless we empty ourselves. We can truly listen to him or truly hear her only out of emptiness.

Although the act of nurturing another's spiritual growth has the effect of nurturing one's own, a major characteristic of genuine love is that the distinction between oneself and the other is always maintained and preserved.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Ultimately love is everything.

There can be no vulnerability without risk there can be no community without vulnerability there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.