Quotes about Disconnection

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.

They go with their flocks and herds to seek the LORD, but they do not find Him; He has withdrawn Himself from them.

And the LORD said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people, and I am not your God.

The roots of this friendship that once nourished me in deep places now ache with a barren flow. The conversations and connections have been hollowed out and replaced with a stabbing throb of a pierced soul. The arrow dug deep.

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Actually although they can be connected, the two are very different things. Vine's

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

We are a society of disconnected people longing for connections.

One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it — and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.

You get used to it, not in the good way, to the extent of the entire world oftentimes feeling like a place where you weren't invited. If you've been here, you know. If not, must be nice.

Have you ever been abandoned? Left behind? Sold out? Maybe not dropped literally down a dry hole, but that's how you felt.