Quotes about Connection

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but are spiritual beings having a human experience.

When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love.

Faith is a marvel, and yet no human being is excluded from it; for that in which all human life is united is passion, and faith is a passion.

So soon as I talk I express the universal, and if I do not do so, no one can understand me.

There is, however, a power that is called memory. It should be dear to all the good ones as well as to all lovers. Yes, it may even be so dear to lovers that they almost prefer this whisper of memory to the sight of each other, as when they say, "Do you remember that time, and do you remember that time?

If you can do that, if you can find exactly the place where the other is and begin there, you may perhaps have the luck to lead him to the place where you are. For to be a teacher does not mean simply to affirm that such a thing is so, or to deliver a lecture, etc. No, to be a teacher in the right sense is to be a learner.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

The heart is like a woman, and the head is like a man, and although man is the head of woman, woman is the heart of man, and she turns man's head because she turns his heart.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

We are one another's strength.