Quotes About Connection

Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.

There's no better reading experience than going to the place where a text was written.

As the Church is the aggregate of believers, there is an intimate analogy between the experience of the individual believer, and of the Church as a whole.

You can experience a download, but you can't download an experience.

The experience of being understood, versus interpreted, is so compelling you can charge admission.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

For me, clothes mean self-expression. You need to have an audience and connect with people. Fashion is shared. It connects people. And we share an experience beyond the clothes.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

somewhere i have never traveled, gladly beyond any experience, your eyes have their silence; in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near

You're happy when you leave your concerns to the side and when you experience a pure moment of joy with friends.

To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.

Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.

You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

Whatever you wish to experience in your own lifetime, cause another to experience in theirs. What you bring to another, you bring to the Self, for there is no other in ultimate reality.

Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind?

It is when you experience another's suffering as your own that your human values is manifested.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

Film is a collective experience, as you know.

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own blood and muscle, we are feeling compassion.