Quotes About Connection

The ultimate experience of love is a realization that beneath the illusion of two-ness dwells identity.

the ultimate experience of love is a realization that beneath the illusion of two-ness dwell identity: each is both. This realization can expand into a discovery that beneath the multitudinous individualities of the whole surrounding universe--human, animal, vegetable, even mineral--dwells identity; whereupon the love experience becomes cosmic, and the beloved who first opened the vision is magnified as the mirror of creation.

People have the notion of saving the world by shifting things around, changing the rules, and who's on top, and so forth. No, no! Any world is a valid world if it's alive. The thing to do is to bring life to it, and the only way to do that is to find in your own case where the life is and become alive yourself.

Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive.

I think what we are looking for is a way of experiencing the world that will open to us the transcendent that informs it, and at the same time forms ourselves within it. That is what people want. That is what the soul asks for.

the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Every step they took, she told him something he'd never known before; and yet it always seemed, the moment she'd said it, as if he had known it all his life.

The girl was absorbed in him, without consciousness or shame.

and though it is perhaps too facile to say that he was already in love with her, it is certainly true that from that moment on she was a permanent element in his mind.

The position of the palms together- this we use when we pray, do we not? That is a greeting that says that the god that is in you recognises the god in the other. These people are aware of the divine presence in all things.

The word compassion means literally suffering with. Of course compassion condones suffering in that it recognizes yes, suffering is life.

But the mystery of the being of your wristwatch will be identical with the mystery of the being of the universe and of yourself as well.

whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns—one of flesh, the other of the spirit, one of time, the other of eternity—where ever love arises such definitions vanish, and a sense of life awakens in which all such oppositions are at one.

My Aunty Frisco used to say that a man who has a strong relationship with fire is capable of historical love, because the flames keep the passion flowing in the smaller parts of the soul.

Your product has a voice — and it's talking to your customers 24 hours a day.

At first as they stumped along the path which edged the Hundred Acre Wood, they didn't say much to each other; but when they came to the stream, and had helped each other across the stepping stones, and were able to walk side by side again over the heather, they began to talk in a friendly way ...

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.

Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.

We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

You can't stay in your corner of the forest, waiting for others to come find you; you have to go to them sometimes.

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

His idea of seeing the world was to see, not countries, but people; and to see them from as many angles as possible.