Quotes about Connection

I remember both of us becoming tearful on that day, not so much because of the insights, but because of the increased sense of reverence we had for each other. We discovered that even seemingly trivial things often have roots in deep emotional experiences. To deal only with the superficial trivia without seeing the deeper, more tender issues is to trample on the sacred ground of another's heart.

Perhaps the highest way to bring balance to life is the family.

If I make deposits into an Emotional Bank Account with you through courtesy, kindness, honesty, and keeping my commitments to you, I build up a reserve. Your trust toward me becomes higher, and I can call upon that trust many times if I need to.

If we are not careful to daily drink of the 'living waters,' we can easily and slowly become strangers to the Lord and his ways and to our own divine identity and purpose.

Go out with your spouse on a regular basis. Have dinner or do something together you both enjoy. Listen to each other; seek to understand.

You can buy a person's hand, but you can't buy his heart.

Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

He continually made deposits into each of our 'emotional bank accounts' with one-on-one dates and modeled that 'in relationships

in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.

Love—the feeling—is a fruit of love, the verb.

So the place to begin building any relationship is inside ourselves, inside our Circle of Influence, our own character.

It is only in orienting his life to the divine center that a person can secure anything else he desires and yet not be based upon it.