Browse 1077 quotes about Connection.
“If you find it challenging, uncomfortable, or repulsive to be around children, it might be that as a child you felt unworthy of spending time with an adult, or you learned that children were to not be seen or heard among adults, or someone made you believe that as a child you were unacceptable.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“You do not need to have a child to benefit from the Divine beauty of children. Spending quality time with children of friends or family is a great way to access the gift that children offer.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children need your attention above all else. The quality of your attention is the single most important gift you can give a child.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“The practice and path of connecting with a child is a gift to you, the child and the world”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Connecting with a child is an incredible opportunity and gift for both you and the child. See through their eyes and invite them to teach you. They will feel delighted and inspired to assist you.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children are closer to God than you know. They are born as the embodiment of radiant Divine Love. When you hold a baby, it is so apparent. They evoke tenderness, love, and openness. That is God loving you through that baby! Such a blessing!”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Almost every child is born expecting love and connection to be available.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“More importantly, a child needs you to be energetically present with them, to play with them, to listen to them and to show them you care. Look them in the eyes and say, “You are so important to me.” Then with your actions demonstrate your reverence for them by spending time interacting with them and mentoring them. Even if they do something ‘wrong’ be gentle. They are just learning how to be in this world. If they ‘act out,’ it is always a call for love. If they make a ‘mistake,’ it is always a call for love. Teach them how to make better choices by mentoring them lovingly.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“If a parent is consistently emotionally unavailable when the child attempts to share what they are learning or invites their parent to spend time playing, the child can feel deeply unworthy of love and attention.”
“If you took on any lies about yourself when you were young, I wish a parent or a mentor had explained to you that other people's behavior had nothing to do with you.”
“You have been the recipient of generations of programming of a variety of lies. Spanning back 20 generations in your lineage, each parent’s parent totals over a million immediate ancestors for you alone. In approximately 500 years, you have a multitude of beliefs, energies, and DNA combining and influencing your existence from all these people in your lineage.”
“Even if you had a rough start to life, even if you had parents who were emotionally unavailable, just like every other baby who has ever come into this life you affected people so deeply as the embodiment of love.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“What children and teens need most in stressful situations, especially when they make mistakes, ‘misbehave,’ experience ‘failure,’ or cry for any reason (including what we might call a ‘temper tantrum’), is a hug and being told, “You matter to me, I love you so much. I’m here for you. Let’s figure this out together.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“If ever a child makes a mistake, no matter how big, they need to hear in words and loving actions, “Even though you made a mistake you are loved. There are consequences to your actions, and I’m here for you. I know you are just learning how to be in life. Let me help you navigate through life.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Your parents’ behavior has nothing to do with whether you are lovable or not. If another child, instead of you, had been born to your parents, they would have treated them in the same way.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“You can choose to let go of the need for your parents or family to be conscious or to know how to meet your needs. They could not and may never be able to meet some of your needs due to their own limitations.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“If you had been born as your parents, you would have made the same choices that they did and had been as stuck as they were. Forgive them for being born into a time of relative darkness without the resources and consciousness that you have today.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“The difference between a child who is taught piano from force, even with ‘good’ intentions, is in stark contrast to a child who feels deeply inspired to learn music.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“When a parent leaves their baby to cry on its own, aloneness and separation is imparted.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“When a child learns separation and disconnection, they become disconnected from the Love that they are and are cast into illusion and suffering.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Children are closest to God. They reveal creation. They are the embodiment of Love and Connection.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“You can see Love emanating from a baby when they make googly eyes with you or when they look deep into your eyes.”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“Kids are scared, uncertain and just finding their way. Be a loving mentor. Extend your wisdom patiently.”
“The ones who listen closely to the land are never truly lost. Even in collapse, they carry direction.”
“The tranquillity and majesty of the mountains provide a perfect setting for spiritual reflection and connection.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Your specialness is because you are who you are. Here is the truth: there is nothing you can do to alter that. It is a matter of personal significance that this life has been granted to you.”
Source: Unconditional Remembrance: Your Connection to Source
“Dual is the way to painless life..”
“Connecting with nature will foster a wholehearted consciousness of the universe within.”
Source: The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight
“We are all connected! We are also individuals. We have our own individual selves here on this earth but there is a part of us that is connected to everyone and everything else. We are all ONE. Begin to move your awareness into this understanding and looking at everything around you as if it is part of you.”
Source: How To Wear A Crown: A Practical Guide To Knowing Your Worth
“Everything that happens in my life— the positive and what seems like the negative— is leading me somewhere for my highest good. All is well. I am safe.”
Source: The Universe is Talking to You: Tap into Signs & Synchronicity to Reveal Magical Moments Every Day
“There are secrets hidden in our flesh. Our cells being born and dying with the same force that makes galaxies form and deconstruct.”
Source: Split Tooth
“You must take care to know once you enter her you are merging worlds. You are reaffirming a sacred agreement of eternal connectivity. Her energy centers will be connected with yours. Your intentions must be the purest to maintain this kind of cosmic sacred connection. You will be connected on every level seen and unseen. You both will become witness to the universe at play. The cosmic etheric dance of devotion. Two existences intermingle creating a third existence of oneness with tantric overtones and harmonics.”
Source: Cosmic Sexuality
“What are the units of ontology really that I should be a part of a whole, but not be, in all my awareness, chiefly the whole unto itself?”
“Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.”
Source: The Stone Diaries
“I think back to the years when I barely left my room, when the pills I took each day for anxiety and depression made the light hurt my skin and my hands tremble too hard to hold a pen. How I devoured books, lying in the fetal position in the dark until my hips hurt against the mattress. How much I needed the desolate predictability, the safeties of stillness and solitude. Beyond distraction or entertainment was just the perfect permanence of the written word and the camaraderie embroidered in its silence.”
Source: The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
“How do you make hope?
For me, it's writing,
reading, researching,
rehearsing, teaching, coaching,
loving--partnering, parenting, friending,
all those things that take me outside of myself
and take me deeper inside myself at the same time,
a beautiful contradictory co-existing reality.
We do not know yet what is still to come,
but we do know what we can do to find our way through it.
Keep making things,
keep making hope.
It's the least we can do.
It's the most we can do.”
“I want to know you're there, but I want to be alone.”
“All islands need some sort of connection, even the great ones.”
Source: In Limbo
“Whenever his eye or mind seems to stop, he discovers another connection, another bridge to carry him to yet another place, and even in the solitude of his room, the world has been rushing in on him at a dizzying speed, as if it were all suddenly converging in him and happening to hm at once.”
Source: The Invention of Solitude
“Whether it be the singing of a lamp or the voice of a storm, whether it be the breath of an evening or the groan of the ocean — whatever surrounds you, a broad melody always wakes behind you, woven out of a thousand voices, where there is room for your own solo only here and there. To know when you need to join in: that is the secret of your solitude: just as the art of true interactions with others is to let yourself fall away from high words into a single common melody.”
Source: The Collected Works of Rainer Maria Rilke: The Complete Works PergamonMedia
“Our two solitudes never quite merged, perhaps, but accepted each other gratefully.”
Source: I Knew a Phoenix: Sketches for an Autobiography
“Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.”
Source: Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
“She hurries out of the hammering rain into the puddled shelter of St Pancras. As arranged, he's waiting outside WH Smith, and her heart jerks like a bad dog on a lead.”
Source: A Particular Man
“It does not matter to me:
wherever you are grieving
whether Paris, Damascus, Jerusalem, Bamako,
Mexico or Beirut or New York City
my heart, too, is bruised
and dragging.
There used to be such a thing
as melodrama
when feelings could be
made up,
but now there is bare pain
and sorrow,
a sense of endlessly missed
opportunities
to smile and embrace
"The other.”
Source: Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart
“But love is impossible and it goes on
despite the impossible.”
Source: Bright Dead Things
“But we don’t merely meet each other as unique individuals or in healthy social circumstances. We meet each other in the current atmosphere of disconnection and distrust. We meet each other as members of groups. We meet each other embedded in systems of power in which some groups have more and some groups have less. We meet each other in a society in which members of the red team and members of the blue team often stand apart and glare across metaphorical walls with bitterness and incomprehension. Our encounters are shaped by our historical inheritances—the legacies of slavery, elitism, sexism, prejudice, bigotry, and economic and social domination. You can’t get to know another person while pretending not to see ideology, class, race, faith, identity, or any of the other fraught social categories.
These days, if you want to know someone well, you have to see the person in front of you as a distinct and never-to-be repeated individual. But you’ve also got to see that person as a member of their groups. And you’ve also got to see their social location—the way some people are insiders and other people are outsiders, how some sit on the top of society and some are marginalized to the fringes. The trick is to be able to see each person on these three levels all at once.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“We are longing to become whole, to unite with that something that will connect us to what we are desperately longing for.”
Source: Mindfulness and Mysticism: Connecting Present Moment Awareness with Higher States of Consciousness
“I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”
Source: Infinite Jest
“We have to find a way to think--
think things through--
think beyond--
go wide--
go deep--
together.
One to One and All to All we must
Connect
Affect
Compromise
Find a way forward
together--
or I truly believe
we've lost all hope.”