Quotes About Connection

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

Wealth (among the Dagara) is determined not by how many things you have, but by how many people you have around you.

The focus here is not on ritual itself, but on opening up something in hearts and spirits that has been locked away so long that individuals can barely remember the source.

The only place where abundance is warranted is in nature. A person who wastes is a person who insults the gods. In light of the waste encountered in the modern world, one wonders if anyone knows that there is a world outside of this abundance where people are aware of priorities other than materialism.

The truth is our disconnection with Earth translates into a kind of disrespect of the feminine. How far can you go in violating the mother that gave you life? As long as the feminine is diminished the connection between us and the Earth will always be underscored by a big question mark. We have abused the Earth so much that we don't know which direction to go. We must wonder about this increasing masculinity that is translated in terms of repeated violence or love of it.

A true community begins in the hearts of the people involved. It is not a place of distraction but a place of being.

It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather

So one of the ways to maintain a certain sense of self is to remain somewhat linked to essential traditionalism.

When we slow down to notice, the universe gives us the signs we need.

Every family has its own unique song. Notice what yours is, and sing it loudly and proudly.

Sitting in stillness helped me feel connected to something bigger than my own daily drama, and it gradually instilled in me a quiet confidence in my own voice and perspective.

Yes, only a fool would have slipped into her deepest reaches and grasped the woman within. The whole of her so fine and glorious, he had reverently fondled each nuance of her mind.

I pulled him closer to me, wrapping my arms around him, kissing him just as desperately as he was kissing me. Like if we could just love long enough and hard enough and deep enough, then the world outside would never, could never hurt us.

Dear God, please let him have heard me. Please. Please. If you're up there. Somewhere.

So why did you want to kiss me?" "We're friends aren't we?" Callum shrugged. I relaxed into a smile. "Of course we are." "And if you can't kiss your friends who can you kiss?" Callum smiled.

But remember this if nothing else: I love you more than there are words or stars. I love you more than there are thoughts and feelings. I love you more than there are seconds or moments gone or to come. I love you.

When did we stop being people, being human?

Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else's shoes for a while.

You have the same smile, the same shaped eyes, the same way of tilting your head to listen, the same stubborn streak, the same common sense. Lots of things about you and him are the same.

He wrapped his arms around me. We were cuddled up like a couple of spoons in a cutlery drawer.

We were comfort kissing, that's all. We wrapped our arms around each other for solace. Bear hugging. Squeezing the life out of each other as if we were trying to merge together. When at last we loosened our grip, in a strange way we were both more calm. Physically, at least. Not mentally.

I can't stop thinking about what might have been… I can't stop imagining the two of us together. My body burns at the thought of it. Sephy and I might've been together for ever." — Callum McGregor

Even if we had gone away together when I wanted us to, we would've been together for a year, maybe two. But sooner or later, other people would've found a way to wedge us apart.

You bring me bliss, my rainbow child.