Quotes about Connection

No self-acceptance is possible if one is not accepted in a person-to-person relation.

He who participates in God participates in eternity.

To overcome our sense of loneliness is a life long pursuit. Let us not despair in its pursuit!

But if it is life alone that dies, love is born, which is the innermost part of the spirit. It is the most mature and most precious fruit of the life that sacrifices itself. Love breaks out of the prison of individualism and nationalist stupidity. Love goes to another person, even one with a different language or of a different race, and returns from him richer.

We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.

Faith as the state of being ultimately concerned implies love, namely, the desire and urge toward the reunion of the seperated.

The separation of faith and love is always a consequence of a deterioration of religion.

Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

The wise are wise only because they love.

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules.

No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn't know it.

This is what we call love. When you are loved, you can do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to understand what's happening, because everything happens within you.