Quotes About Connection

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You're opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

When you meet someone you love, then you change for good. That's why the other person will never know or understand the earlier you, and why you can never change back. And why, when that person starts to go, you'll feel the tear deep in your heart long before your head has the slightest clue what's going on.

Everyone's alone in their world, because everybody's life is different. You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

The only advice I have ever wanted to give is this: 'If it is in your nature to do so be a little vulnerable. Don't be afraid to talk about yourself, your journey, your pain, your vision.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and silence. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hearing a story awakens the mythic story living in each of us. It places us in a "mythic condition" that reconnects us to the core imagination and living story at the center of our soul. Being touched by myth carries us to the center where the world is always ending and always beginning again.

Human beings long for connection, and our sense of usefulness derives from the feeling of connectedness. When we are connected — to our own purpose, to the community around us, and to our spiritual wisdom — we are able to live and act with authentic effectiveness.

The wound in one person can become the door through which everyone can find the center of life again.

The thread that ties us to the center is the hidden cord of the heart, it is the thread of genius that can connect the mind with the heart, that allows the mind to feel and reveals the thought set within the heart.

There is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us.

Unless a person learns of the sacred intentions in their own life it will be difficult for them to understand the sacred presence in all of life.

A community best serves itself when it truly serves the awakening of the unique story trying to come to life through each person born.

Soul is found where life deepens us, where meaning calls to us, where trouble deters us, wherever and however we slow down in the midst of the rushing and racing at the surface level of life.

Traumatizing agents include the rise of mass culture and the subsequent diminishing of the individual soul, the spread of rampant materialism, and the rise of "connective" technologies that contribute to deep disconnections while "linking" people at surface levels of life.

Until you get to know them in person, anyone you correspond with online remains a stranger.

I walk the moonbeam roads a silver web connecting the many worlds of the Multiverse.

Life is best when you are in love.

Being his real brother I could feel I live in his shadows, but I never have and I do not now. I live in his glow.

Any problem can be solved between people if only they can trust each other

We're much alike, bee, you and me," I said. "You may carry your pack underneath you and your rifle may stick out of your bottom. But you and me, bee, are much alike.

Tonight, I want very much to believe that there's a heaven, that death is not a full stop, and that we will all see one another again.

Dry-humping, I believe it's called.

I'm sorry about today." "Do you want to talk about it?" "I was bored and lonely." "Some would call that the human condition.

It doesn't have to mean anything to you to mean something to me.