Quotes About Connection

Estar a su lado (que creo es, justamente, donde deseo estar) equivale a estar aún más solo.

Así que floto, a la deriva, como si fuera una misión, mirando al cielo, pensando en eso de que uno se siente solo cuando está con gente; cuando uno está solo, en cambio, hasta puede que se sienta acompañado.

Al estar rodeado de tanta gente, de estar tan expuesto, de no tener tiempo para aquellos placeres autistas que te alimentan, uno termina por echarse de menos.

Creer que porque uno sintió algo, ese algo de alguna manera logró colarse y depositarse en el sistema digestivo del otro.

Es bueno defender las cosas que se sienten, pero para hay que sentirlas y para eso hace falta algo más.

If the book is second-hand, I leave all its markings intact, the spoor of previous readers, fellow-travellers who have recorded their passage by means of scribbled comments, a name on the fly-leaf, a bus ticket to mark a certain page.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

Giuro davanti a Dio che non toccherò mai più né i fiori, né le piante, né le lucertole.

mi innamorai nella sola maniera in cui sono capace di innamorarmi: lentissimamente, cominciando quasi con l'indifferenza e finendo con la passione.

Non è solo chi è solo; è solo chi si sente solo.

There will be a time when we all get old, have kids, and all we do is work, so the only thing we are going to have are the memories we shared on the life we lived together.

The shaman is a self-realized person. She discovers the ways of Spirit through her inner awakening.

As the Lakota Sioux phrase Mitakuye Oyasin—"All my relations"—implies, we're all connected, all in this together. Recovery is reciprocal: heal yourself, heal the world; heal the world, heal yourself.

It's in bringing others the healing gifts we've received that the benefits of these gifts become truly ours.

you recognize your connection to others and perceive that you aren't the only one who matters, and you genuinely care about the good of all of Earth's creatures.

The dreamtime infuses all matter and energy, connecting every creature, every rock, every star, and every ray of light or bit of cosmic dust. The power to dream, then, is the power to participate in creation itself. Dreaming reality is not only an ability but a duty, one all humans must perform with grace so that our grandchildren will inherit a world where they can live in peace and abundance.

You would be surprised at the healing power of a simple "I love you" from a dying parent to a child or vice versa. This is not always easy, of course, yet a lifetime of mistakes can be undone through forgiveness even at the end of a life.

In the seventh chakra we understand that life is an intricate web of luminous strands, and that each of us is one of these strands, but also that we are the entire web.

May I look on you when my last hour comes; may I hold you, as I sink, with my failing hand.

There are five people you meet in heaven," the Blue Man suddenly said. "Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.

All the people you meet here have one thing to teach you." Eddie was skeptical. His fists stayed clenched. "What?" he said. "That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.

I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.

For those who belong nowhere, and for those who belong to one place too much to belong anywhere else.