Quotes about Connection

The notion that the mind and body are actually different sides of the same coin goes all the way back to the origins of medicine. For most of its history, the practice was not separated from other aspects of human activity.

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him?

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

If you are with people you truly love, then the simplest meal can feel so romantic.

What could be more natural for this man than to draw to his bosom all with whom he shared that time, even his foes? Perhaps his foes more than any.

Instead we are tapped into an unquenchable, undepletable, inexhaustible source of wisdom, consciousness, companionship. Yeah, we lose friends. But we find friends too, in places we never thought to look. And they're better friends, truer friends. And we're better and truer to them.

Do not tell me death is real. It is not. I have sustained my heart for ages with the love my brother passed on to me, dead as he was.

nothing can alter the fact that beneath the fascist insignia of their uniforms, these men are fathers, husbands, sons. I

Know that all that is," Bagger Vance's voice came again as if in a dream, "flows from the union of the Field and the Knower.

I read R.D. Laing, I read Victor Frankl. Anything by Ken Kesey or Peter Matthiessen, Gary Snyder, Jack Kerouac, Alan Ginsberg, R. Crumb, Bob Dylan. These sacred texts are passed from one hand to another like relics of a religious past or harbingers of a new faith.

The way a man relates to his dad will often affect how he relates to his Father God.