Quotes About Connection

The fire crackled under the long pan of clear sap and he and his dad didn't say much, but he was aware enough—he'd read enough fiction, he guessed—to realize that these might be the best hours he and his father ever spent together.

It occurred to me that the death of his grazing land hurt him more, incomparably more than the death of the human race. I liked him a lot better in that moment.

I looked at the terraced hills and noticed how the people had changed the earth, taming it into dizzying staircases of rice paddies; but the Chinese looked at the people and saw how they have been shaped by the land.

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.

Professional psychics use astrology all the time. Why? I don't know. I would think that a true psychic would be the last person who would have any use for astrology, even if it were true.

This relationship among author, text, and reader is known in the literary trade as

Good sex is one-percent of the relationship. bad sex is 99%.

Reach out, call your family members, if you have children, call them right now.

It is not difficult to imagine that music, like Dante's Beatrice, is one of the ways in which grace operates through beauty—that music, like Beatrice, is a mediator.

All nature is waiting for us to become conscious because there's a particular quality of consciousness that only humans can provide. Nature needs that consciousness; cries out for it. And the process of deciphering Nature's need, then discovering how to respond to it, is what's called learning to become human.

Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

Love gives you eyes.

But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”

Now the whole world had one language and a common form of speech.

Early in the evening, Isaac went out to the field to meditate, and looking up, he saw the camels approaching.

And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel

Then prepare a tasty dish that I love and bring it to me to eat, so that I may bless you before I die.”

Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”

So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.

And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and Godís angels were going up and down the ladder.

When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.

“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”