Quotes About Connection

Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.

As we distance ourselves further from the natural world, we are increasingly surrounded by and dependent on our own inventions. We become enslaved by the constant demands of technology created to serve us.

Our identity includes our natural world, how we move through it, how we interact with it and how it sustains us.

Why do you need to go outside? For one thing, to appreciate what it is that keeps you alive. And the more time you spend outside, the more you are able to sense change in that world. If you can smell something, chances are that unless it's flowers or food, it doesn't belong there and is not good for us. But even more profound, we have to get outside and seek nature because we need that connection for our physical and mental health.

There is no environment "out there" that is separate from us. We can't manage our impact on the environment if we are our surroundings. Indigenous people are absolutely correct: we are born of the earth and constructed from the four sacred elements of earth, air, fire and water. (Hindus list these four and add a fifth element, space.)

That little walk powerfully reminded me that nature is our touchstone. However sophisticated and technologically advanced we may be, we are biological creatures, utterly dependent on her beneficence for clean air, water and food.

The place where we spend most of our lives moulds our priorities and the way we perceive our surroundings. A human-engineered habitat of asphalt, concrete and glass reinforces our belief that we lie outside of and above nature, immune from uncertainty and the unexpected of the wild.

We know that deprivation of love can kill people. What are the effects of being deprived of a living environment?

It's vital that you remind everyone around you at the hospital that you're still a human being, even when you feel like a gravely wounded animal. The hospital care providers were not my family, but I soon realized that I needed them to care about me as if we were connected by blood.

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One day, Lisa Capaldini, a young intern in the AIDS ward, was saying good-bye to a patient named Gordon with whom she had grown close. Gordon was about to be discharged, but he was blind and dying, and Capaldini knew that she would never see him again. While she hovered over his bed, the intern began to cry. "And I thought, 'That's okay, he won't know.' Then I realized that my tears were dropping on his face. And I thought, 'Busted.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?'

For a while I saw myself as an outcast from an America that had always been mine.

I feel that I owe my life to them and I set out to write a book that reflects this, reflects the debt I owe them, and does them honor.

Las canciones son cometas que alguien agarra al vuelo y las sostiene un rato o ya no las suelta más nunca.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

Connecting people though technology • Aligning strategy, culture, practices, and behavior • Sustaining change

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

Strength is the willingness to take risks in a relationship, to disclose yourself with the intention of building a better relationship.

Do those we remember remember us?

You should stay alive As often as possible and keep yourself open to anything out of place and everything with nowhere else to go, to carry what's left of your voice out and beyond, into, over, and under, past, within, outside, between, among, across, along, and up and around and to be beside yourself when the spirit moves you…

They show us more often Than not how to die At the same time and in more ways Of doing both, of taking the first Out of the heart of the other And spreading it around…

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