Quotes About Connection

Yoyo said to me recently, 'Love and pain, that's what families are, and they fit together like this'--he slotted the tips of our fingers together--'like cogs.' Then he smiled and put a hand on my swollen belly. 'And what makes these cogs turn is hope, of course.

Gone are the days when you simply write a jolly good book and wait for the queues to form. Readers need to be friended, darling. They need to be subscribers. They need to be followers.

La añoranza es calculada mediante cifras también. Distancia multiplicada por el factor Amor.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

Well, really, how would you like to make love with someone who kept twittering about his pure mystic modality and wanted to stick flowers in your navel?

the eye should not see until the heart has conceived

People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.

Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.

Emotion is contagious.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior...you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be practiced and expressed and nurtured.

How alike are the groans of love, to those of the dying.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

No se puede vivir sin amar

I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours.

Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours." "Thank you." "Sank you." "Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you." "Sank you.

hugged and kissed and touched and loved. He lived life large, never

And I wonder---if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings. . . .

For as we stretch & strain to look through the various windows into the past, we do not merely see a bygone people hunting, fishing, painting their bodies, & dancing their dances. If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, & reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves.

For all the differences that divide us from humanity across the sea or down the centuries, it is through suffering that we maintain a common bond.

Presence is more than just being there.

Eating well. Exercising well. Sleeping well and loving generously. All of these things slow us down and bring us stillness, revealing and enabling this wise part of ourselves.

We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.