Quotes About Connection

God thinks. You think. God wills. You will. God feels. You feel.

Part of that likeness is to feel.

Emotions are the language of the soul.

genuine love is released in a relationship, God's presence is manifest. The separate space between us becomes sacred space.

While I was disciplined in spiritual practices, the people closest to me (starting with my wife, Geri) did not experience me as more loving with each passing year.

Your being with God (or lack of being with God) will trump, eventually, your doing for God every time. We cannot give what we do not possess. We cannot help but give what we do possess.

God may be screaming at us through our physical body while we look for (and prefer) a more "spiritual" signal. The reality is that often our bodies know our feelings before our minds.

loving well is the essence of true spirituality.

La salud emocional y la madurez espiritual son inseparables.

I may not agree with you or you with me. Yet I can remain in relationship with you. I don't have to detach from you, reject you, avoid you, or criticize you to validate myself. I can be myself apart from you.

Let the person who cannot be alone beware of community. Let the person who is not in community beware of being alone."17

Christian faith: emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable.

Scripture Reading: Mark 3:31–35 Then Jesus' mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, "Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you." "Who are my mother and my brothers?" he asked. Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother.

El que no sepa vivir en comunidad, que tenga cuidado con la soledad».

Aun en la soledad, debemos estar juntos, como una «comunidad de soledades».

Det energetiske menneske har ikke noget behov for at trænge sig på eller præge mennesker og ting. Det lever gennem den inciterende følelse af, at mennesker og ting kommer det i møde,

I ethvert menneskes liv er der områder, som endnu ingen har fulgt dem ind i. Det er ikke-kærlighedens isolerede zoner. Her standser foden. Den stivner i en evig uforløst gebærde,

Den gamle kærlighed - at holde og blive holdt om, at sikre og være sikret, kærligheden pga. svaghed og fortvivlelse - har det lagt bag sig. Det lever i en kærlighed, der omfatter kærlighedsfjernhed og uelskethed, en kærlighed, der omfatter en ensomhed, som både er nøgtern og glødende, en kærlighed, der ikke vil noget bestemt og derfor er åben og til rådighed, en kærlighed, det heler kærlighedssår, idet den også elsker disse.

Jeg erkender hos den anden altså netop det som fascinerende, som i mig selv lige nu er modent for udvikling. Forbilledspejlingen med det elskede menneske vækker altså i rette øjeblik mit eget livspotentiel.

TThe most effective way to save the threatened and decimated natural world is to cause people to fall in love with it again, with its beauty and its reality.

He came in and took a piss in my hotel bathroom without even closing the door as I'm standing right there. I'm like, "Alright. You're comfortable." It was like we knew each other for four or five years, even though we had never met.

The world is made of Circles And we think in straight Lines

God was singing through this little man to all the world.

successful humor breaks down the power structures that tend to inhibit tighter social bonds and interactions