Quotes About Connection

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason.

Both Jamie and Claudia had acquired a talent for being near but never part of a group. (Some people, Saxonberg, never learn to do that all their lives, and some learn it all too well.)

Friendship is a combination of art and craft. The craft part is in knowing how to give and how to take. The art part is in knowing when, and the whole process only works when no one is keeping track.

Inside me there was a lot of best friendship that no one but Ginger was using.

Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.

It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

This desire to govern a woman—it lies very deep, and men and women must fight it together.... But I do love you surely in a better way than he does. He thought. Yes—really in a better way. I want you to have your own thoughts even when I hold you in my arms.

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.

Only connect!

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

Love will heal What language fails to know

Emotions arise in the place where your mind and body meet

You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe, an intrinsic part of it. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.

Authentic human interactions become impossible when you lose yourself in a role.

Even a stone, and more easily a flower or a bird, could show you the way back to God, to the Source, to yourself. When you look at it or hold it & let it be without imposing a word of mental label on it, a sense of awe, of wonder, arises within you. Its essence silently communicates itself to you and reflects your own essence back to you.

When another recognizes you, that recognition draws the dimension of Being more fully into this world through both of you. That is the love that redeems the world.

At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

Each person's life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a world, a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

The more shared past there is in a relationship, the more present you need to be...

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?