Quotes About Connection

La idea de que somos Dios no se refiere a que somos omnipotentes o que controlamos todo en el universo. Más bien, sugiere que somos parte integral de la divinidad. Es decir, llevamos en nosotros un pedazo del infinito, de lo sagrado. Cuando decimos "YO SOY", estamos afirmando nuestra conexión con ese infinito.

What you sincerely believe as true of another you awaken within him.

It is when your feeling of reverence is most intense that you are closest to God, and when you are closest to God your life is richest.

Often our most elaborate and original thoughts are determined by another.

Although others have bodies, a life of their own, their reality is rooted in you, ends in you, as yours end in God.

Said Buddha to the hot dog vendor, "make me one with everything.

It's terrible when the old have to bury the young. But it is more terrible when neither the old nor the young are there to bury each other.

No. He'll remain here. But - but - you sometimes get a feeling you're going away from someone forever...

The dynamic inter-linkage of art forms in orature is thus seen as reflecting a Weltanschauung that assumes the normality of the connection between nature, nurture, supernatural, and supernurtural. I

Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.

To begin you must be traced into the landscape, your people and your place found. Until they are you are in the wrong story.

And because he hadn't considered attaching blame, because he lived outside of the jurisdiction of all judgement and thought everyone was always doing their best, Ganga put a hand on Christy's shoulder and squeezed.

Listen, here's a human being who has suffered for love. It said Here's a heart aching, and that ache was large enough, urgent and familiar enough, for you all to feel it and by feeling participate in something you yourself were either too timid, closed or unlucky to have known personally, or had known in the long ago of your own innocence over which you had since grown the skin necessary to tolerate the loss and stay living.

She flashed upon his life with an electric energy, shattering every day's effort at work and leaving a kind of glimmering burning feeling all day and night around the edges of his heart.

was already different because I was a twin. Funny how you can say that: I am a twin. Not I am one of twins, but I actually am A Twin. Like there's two of me all the time, this other one right here beside me whether you can see him or not. Or as if you're saying, I'm a Half.

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Margaret Gore knew what love was.

It was where once, in town, I watched my grandfather come out of Brews, take a big copper penny from his pocket, place it on the path, and walk away. When I asked him why, he smiled an iceberg smile whose depths were unknown, and said, 'The man, woman or child that finds that will think it's their lucky day.' He delivered a large wink, added: 'And it will be.

Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.

Some people you meet and you feel this little lift in your heart, this Ah, because there's something in them that's brighter or lighter, something beautiful or better than you, and here's the magic: instead of feeling worse, instead of feeling why am I so ordinary?, you feel just the opposite, you feel glad. In a weird way you feel better, because before this you hadn't realised or you'd forgotten human beings could shine so.

Where are you, Aeney? You slip away from me as you always did. Where are you?

at that moment I understood that this in miniature was the world, a connective of human feeling, for the most part by far pulsing with the dream of the betterment of the other, and in this was an invisible current that, despite faults and breakdowns, was all the time being restored and switched back on and was running not because of past or future times but because, all times since beginning and to the end, the signal was still on, still pulsing, and still trying to love.

Noi siamo la nostra storia, la raccontiamo per rimanere vivi o mantenere in vita quelli che raccontiamo

We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.