Quotes About Connection

My nose is a bridge between East and West. My little eye is a wink from God.

The sensual and spiritual are the same energy playing at different speeds, like poetry and dance.

We need to begin by recognizing the validity and value of our own experience for the corporate good. Contrary to the distorted view of theology often communicated by our teachers in the past, our own experience is relevant to the theology of the whole community. If our theological understanding has no connection with lived experience, it has no validation of its own and becomes part of the dead weight that burdens us instead of the meaningful context that illuminates our lives.

Most writers in older lands despaired of being understood by those who had not lived their language.

People sup together, play together, travel together, but they do not think together.

Philosophy is not a doctrine but a way of life, so the philosophers, for all the differences in their teachings, have more in common with one another than with anyone else, even their own followers.

We witness a strange inversion: on the one hand, the endeavor to turn the social contract into a less calculating and more feeling connection among its members; on the other hand, the endeavor to turn the erotic relationship into a contractual one.

Being grandparents sufficiently removes us from the responsibilities so that we can be friends.

There is no such thing as doing nothing. There is no such thing as neutral or uninvolved. At every moment, social life involves all of us.

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

The current's energy depends on the strength of the thought and the will; this is how prayer is heard by spirits wherever they may be, how

What he missed was "the lack of great sounding boards like John, Ringo, George to actually talk to about the music.

The Adult's approach to the worth of persons … would follow these lines. I am a person. You are a person. Without you I am not a person, for only through you is language made possible and only through language is thought made possible, and only through thought is humanness made possible. You have made me important. Therefore, I am important and you are important. If I devalue you, I devalue myself. This is the rationale of the

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Most men, if they're going to lie to a woman, would be far better off doing it over the phone, in a letter, or with all the lights off and a blanket over their heads.

Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in actually doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming, "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting.

Life doesn't make sense. It's against the law for somebody to steal your bike but apparently it doesn't matter if somebody tries to steal your best friend. Well you can always get a new bike. But how do you replace a best friend

my aim in writing The Watch That Ends the Night was not to present history. My aim was to present humanity. The people represented in this book lived and breathed and loved. They were as real as you or me. They could have been any one of us.

Why were you staring at me?" the girl asked. The boy replied, "Because you are beautiful.

People ask every day, "Why was I put on earth?" As if there is perhaps one reason. The truth is that there are too many reasons to count, and each reason and each soul connects to every other

Reading was like visiting distant friends.

There are people who can make love standing on a hammock, but it is not the easiest way.

The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fixangelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night.