Quotes about Connection

But it was the singing that pulled me in and split me wide open.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

One of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people.

Everything was coming together by coming apart . . . It is the most difficult Zen practice to leave people to their destiny, even though it's painful - just loving them, and breathing with them, and distracting them in a sweet way, and laughing with them . . . if something was not my problem, I probably did not have the solution.

We aren't a drop in the ocean, but are the ocean, in drops.

I know nothing, except what everyone knows--if there when grace dances, I should dance.

Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up. The opposite may be true: We may not be able to get it together until after we show up in such miserable shape.

When you can step back at moments like these and see what is happening, when you watch people you love under fire or evaporating, you realize that the secret of life is patch patch patch. Thread your needle, make a knot, find one place on the other piece of torn cloth where you can make one stitch that will hold. And do it again. And again. And again.

When humans experience something as powerful as a forest or a rainbow, it is not crazy to assign its existence to a Greater Intelligence.

I recognize the divinity in you, but actually more like, I recognize our each-otherness, instantly

I believe that when all si said and done, all you can do is to show up for someone in crisis, which seems so inadequate. But then when you do, it can radically change everything. Your there-ness, your stepping into a scared [person's] line of vision, can be life giving, because often everyone else is in hiding...