Quotes About Connection

If a person does not trust another, they will not be vulnerable and transparent and the possibility of misunderstanding and misinterpretation increases. Low trust situations weaken the connection between what we feel and what we say. Other team members pick up on this lack of trust on their intuitive radar screens, raise their defensive shields, and respond in kind. Trust and communication spiral down together.

A horse doesn't care how much you know, until he knows how much you care.

Prayer is to assure you of your connection with Home, much as when you were children and you left for the day. There was that moment of panic— I'm sure you remember it— when you had to call home just to be sure that it was still there. Prayer is like that. It is calling Home.

I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.

Putting words onto paper—when it is done as an honest act of search or connection, rather than as an act of manipulation, performance, self-aggrandizement or self-protection—is a holy act.

Both writing and praying are acts of deep vulnerability.

I go fishing in my mind. I put out bait, the bait of my own longing, my desire, and my hunger for connection, for a tug of something alive at the end of a line. Something that I may have to struggle with to pull in, but that will be wild and important to me, whether I keep it or let it go.

The more we open ourselves to love, the larger our capacity for love becomes.

God's love is God's attention.

Jesus said, "But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.

I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun's slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved."5

She begins, "What is the question we spend our entire lives asking?" and answers, "Our question is this: Are we loved? I don't mean by one another." She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: "I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the sun's slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.

To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name.

It is a kind of love, is it not? How the cup holds the tea, How the chair stands sturdily and foursquare, How the floor received the bottoms of shoes or toes.

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight. Eudora Welty

are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

When one person is missing the whole world seems empty.

If only faces could talk....

they don't care how much you know, unless they know how much you care.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us." WALT DISNEY Katherine

I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.

Humankind is drawn to dogs because they are so like ourselves—bumbling, affectionate, confused, easily disappointed, eager to be amused, grateful for kindness and the least attention.

The similarities that we share, and the differences that confuse us, are a blessing and a curse in our relationship with dogs.

The more you love your dog, the more you need to understand human behavior.