Quotes About Connection

Theologically and objectively speaking, we are already in union with God. But it is very hard for people to believe or experience this when they have no positive sense of identity

The great commandment is not thou shalt be right. The great commandment is to be in love.

Such utterly free and gratuitous love is the only love that validates, transforms, and changes us at the deepest levels of consciousness. It is what we all desire and what we were created for. Once you allow it for yourself, you will almost naturally become a conduit of the same for others.

And to be fully honest, I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

the little boy couldn't feel and admit the pain until he was sufficiently sure that love was there.

True religion is always a deep intuition that we are already participating in something very good, in spite of our best efforts to deny it or avoid it.

I'll say it again: God loves things by becoming them.

In any situation, your taking or giving of energy is what you are actually doing.

This realization that Someone is living in us and through us is exactly how we plug into a much larger mind and heart beyond our own.

So long as we all cling to our prejudices and identify with our preconceived views and feelings, genuine human community is impossible. You have to get to the point where you can break free from your feelings. Otherwise in the end you won't have any feelings; they'll have you.

Human life is about more than building boundaries, protecting identities, creating tribes, and teaching impulse control.

do not find our own Center; it finds us. The body is in the soul. It is both the place of contact and the place of surrender.

Only presence can know presence. And our real presence can know Real Presence.

It was my opinion (then and now) that two people who love each other need not necessarily have the same dreams and aspirations, but they damn well ought to share the same nightmares.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

yank out one thread from the fabric of human destiny, and everything unravels.

Because yank out one thread from the fabric of human destiny, and everything unravels. Though it could also be said that things have a tendency to unravel regardless.

Only after we've done a thing do we know what we'll do, and by then whatever we've done has already begun to sever itself from clear significance, at least for the doer. Which is why we have spouses and children and parents and colleagues and friends, because someone has to know us better than we know ourselves.

You look like your mom," he said, smiling.

Lest it seem that I was neglected, I should point out that once I became known to the Mohawk Grill crowd, it was like having about two dozen more or less negligent fathers whose slender attentions and vague goodwill nevertheless added up.

How the three of them had met at Jacy's sorority, where they all slung hash

Who are you talking to?" "This goose," I assure him. And in fact he looks relieved. "I was afraid you were talking to yourself.

In my own way, I too was unable to execute his wishes. He'd begged me before I left that afternoon when he'd tried to go home to stay away from the hospital, now that it was just a matter of time. But I couldn't, and toward the end I saw in his eyes each time that I appeared beside his bed that he was glad to see me, and scared as hell of dying alone. Which he ended up doing anyway. The

I remember vividly wishing she wouldn't do that, that she'd let him arrange his thoughts and feelings the way he wanted. After all, how does one invalidate a powerful feeling? Not with logic, surely.