Quotes about Connection

With understanding and compassion, you will be able to heal the wounds in your heart, and the wounds in the world.

You have two gardens: your own garden and that of your beloved. First, you have to take of your own garden and master the art of gardening.

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

In a family, if there is one person who practices mindfulness, the entire family will be more mindful. Because of the presence of one member who lives in mindfulness, the entire family is reminded to live in mindfulness.

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.

Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.

I really love that 'I Can Feel the Heart Beating as One' Yo La Tengo record a lot.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together, so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.

Nothing ever happens in the world that does not happen first inside human hearts.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.