Quotes about Connection

Spiritual reading, therefore, is slow, deliberate, meditative reading in which we allow the words to penetrate our heart and question our spirit.

When we think about the people who have given us hope and have increased the strength of our soul, we might discover that they were not the advice givers, warners or moralists, but the few who were able to articulate in words and actions the human condition in which we participate and who encouraged us to face the realities of life.

Prayer, which is breathing with the Spirit of Jesus, leads us to this immense knowledge.

Friendship and love cannot develop in the form of an anxious clinging to each other.

God is the hub of the wheel of life. The closer we come to God the closer we come to each other. The basis of community is not primarily our ideas, feelings, and emotions about each other but our common search for God. When we keep our minds and hearts directed toward God, we will come more fully "together.

Where does my complete flowering as a human being connect with the needs of the world?

what is most personal and unique in each one of us is probably the very element which would, if it were shared or expressed, speak most deeply to others.

Being alive means being loved.

Every relationship carries within its center a holy vacancy, a space that is for the first Love, God alone.

As the Beloved ones, our greatest fulfilment lies in becoming bread for the world. That is the most intimate expression of our deepest desire to give ourselves to each other.

In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.

Real loneliness comes when we have lost all sense of having things in common. When