Quotes About Connection

our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

One way to achieve happiness is to give happiness to others.

Isn't it curious how, very occasionally, we have a strong and inexplicable feeling about a complete stranger? Most of the time, someone we don't know is just someone we don't know. Perhaps we form an impression of them on account of how they dress, speak, or move. We usually have no expectation, no feeling—good or bad—when we first encounter a new person.

This is another reason we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again. Sometimes even in this same lifetime.

As humans we have much greater potential, of course," His Holiness replied. "But the way we all want very much to stay alive, the way we cling to our particular experience of consciousness—in this way human and animal are equal.

We are manifestations of the earth, the air, the water and the sun.

we should behave with love and compassion toward all living beings. We never know in what circumstances we will meet up with them again.

The power of meow?" suggested Serena as Mrs. Trinci stroked me. "Exactly," said His Holiness, chuckling. "It is the pathway to well-being and to discovering our own true nature.

David Michie

When we are with pets," observed the Dalai Lama. "We can be ourselves. No need to pretend.

Yes, dear reader, that's the other reason we cats purr. Arguably, it's the most important reason: to make you happy. Purring is our V—our way of reminding you that you are loved and special, and that you should never forget how we feel about you, especially when you're vulnerable.

the bond of blood. How strong it is, and how it has the power to reach across oceans.

doing small acts with great love is our most precious gift, and not only for those we are helping. It is a wonderful paradox that when we help others, we, ourselves, are the first to benefit.

My little 'bodhicatva,'" he will sometimes call me, a play on bodhisattva, a Sanskrit term that in Buddhism refers to an enlightened being.

If there is a very strong connection, sometimes the same being can come back again and again.

Thoughts and feelings manifest in the bodies of felines as much as in humans.

We are connected to each other through innumerable lifetimes and in limitless ways.

It is said that each one of us has been a mother to every other living being, at some time in the past," he gazed at me with open-hearted benevolence. "Imagine, little Snow Lion, if we could all feel that connection, as if it were real?

If it's transformation we seek, the feeling of giving must be authentic. It must touch our heart.

Yoga means to unite. To join.

The wedding ring on my left hand was bought by my grandfather, Samuel Miliband, in Brussels in 1920. I never knew him, as he died when I was one. But his ring was kept by my aunt until it was placed on my finger by my wife Louise 32 years later.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.