Quotes about Connection

So I practice the fifth Get: I get in touch with others. I tell my partner the truth about how crunchy I feel inside, how unevolved or vindictive. Or I pick up the three-hundred-pound phone and tell a close friend. Or I get in the car and head to where one of my precious communities has gathered. This might be a park, my church, my Sunday school room; with hikers, sober people, townsfolk.

How come you can hear a chord, and then another chord, and then your heart breaks open?

We religious types, even those who detest organized religion, pray for deeper faith and a greater sense of oneness with God.

Look around and see whom you can serve. This will fill you.

We won't love you if you're perfect.

Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.

the greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.

Write like you talk. Often.

Creating ideas that spread and connecting the disconnected are the two pillars of our new society, and both of them require the posture of the artist.

Seizing new ground, making connections between people or ideas, working without a map—these are works of art, and if you do them, you are an artist, regardless of whether you wear a smock, use a computer, or work with others all day long.

A movement is thrilling. It's the work of many people, all connected, all seeking something better.

We seek out experiences and products that deliver more value, more connection, and more experience, and change us for the better.