Quotes about Connection

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That is the message he is sending. If you are able to see that, offer him what he needs — relief. Happiness and safety are not an individual matter. His happiness and safety are crucial for your happiness and safety. Wholeheartedly wish him happiness and safety, and you will be happy and safe also.

The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand.

When we walk, we can walk for our ancestors and future generations. Maybe they had to walk with sorrow; perhaps they were forced to march or migrate. When we walk freely, we are walking for them.

The miracle is not to walk on water or in thin air, but to walk on Earth.

We transmit our thoughts, speech and actions - collectively known as our karma to our children and to the world, that is our future.

You must do whatever is necessary to be able to do this: recognize the presence of the person you love several times each day.

When St Francis looked deeply at an all day treatment in winter and asked it to speak to him about God, the tree was instantly covered in blossoms.

You must always check things out by going to the person in question and asking for his or her help: "Dear one, I am suffering so much, help me please.

We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another.

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.

God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.