Connectedness Quotes - Page 4

• We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Phenomenology, World, Fields

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.421, Psychology Press

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• The cosmos is within us. We are made of star stuff

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Cosmos, Stuff

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• People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.

  Mary Pipher

  America, People, Immigration

  Mary Pipher (2003). “The Middle of Everywhere”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Art-making is an extension of the kind of spiritual process that shamans unfold in order to demonstrate the connectedness of the world beyond reality.

  Hyon Gyon

  Spiritual, Reality, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would like my art to be about the possibility that each of us has to realize our connectedness with this great Spirit, whatever you want to name it, our inherent Buddha nature, Christ consciousness, primordial reality, the ground of being, God. Whether you want to go for a personal or impersonal perception of Spirit, is up to the individual.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Reality, Perception

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.

  Wole Soyinka

  Thinking, Air, Joy

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• My marriage is my marriage, and it means I'm able to share in the same aspirations of commitment and love and support and dedication and connectedness, and that my parents are able to dance at our wedding and that our family and friends are able to support and celebrate and hold us accountable for the commitment we've made to one another. That takes nothing away from anyone else.

  Evan Wolfson

  Mean, Commitment, Dedication

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• They are the kinds of things that make us a community: attachment to place, attachment to local arts traditions, the ability to read literature, the ability to look at paintings, the sense of connectedness to the land, the sense of community that comes from people taking care of their own.

  Robert Hass

  Art, Attachment, Land

  Interview with Sarah Pollock, www.motherjones.com. March/April, 1997.

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• Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

  Robert D. Putnam

  Life, Change, Differences

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• Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Profound, Joy

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.59, Penguin

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• In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent.

  Polixeni Papapetrou

  Mother, Children, Independent

  "Stories from the Other Side: Polixeni Papapetrou Exhibits at Jenkins Johnson Gallery, NYC". Interview with Caia Hagel, logger.believermag.com. April 29, 2013.

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• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  J.H. Wyman

  Stories, Human Condition, Humans

  "Fringe Showrunner J.h. Wyman Talks About the Final Episodes". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. December 5, 2012.

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• What analysis is all about is for one hour a week, you sit and hope that for a flash of a moment you will experience connectedness.

  Marion Woodman

  Analysis, Moments, Week

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• I take a benign view of digital connectedness. I notice in most young people's lives, Facebook and such doesn't replace normal dating or hanging out, it just facilitates it.

  David Brooks

  Views, People, Dating

  "Ask the Author Live: David Brooks on the Composure Class". Live chat, www.newyorker.com. January 7, 2011.

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• Some people when I speak of awareness of the "inner body" call it a technique. I would not call it a technique because it is too simple for that. When the oak tree feels its roots in the earth, its connectedness with the earth, it is not practicing a technique.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Simple, Roots, People

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• Conscience is a creator of meaning. As a sense of constraint rooted in our emotional ties to one another, it prevents life from devolving into nothing but a long and essentially boring game of attempted dominance over our fellow human beings, and for every limitation conscience imposes on us, it gives us a moment of connectedness with an other, a bridge to someone or something outside of our often meaningless schemes.

  Martha Stout

  Emotional, Ties, Games

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• And yet, these insights of connectedness and oneness, which make us feel so at home in the world, are so difficult to hold onto. And so, inevitably, we wind up living lives of isolation and loneliness.

  Irwin Kula

  Loneliness, Live Life, Home

  "Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero". "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 2002.

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• Community is not something you have, like pizza. Now is it something you can buy. It's a living organism based on a web of interdependencies- which is to say, a local economy. It expresses itself physically as connectedness, as buildings actively relating to each other, and to whatever public space exists, be it the street, or the courthouse or the village green.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Space, Community, Village

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• The connectedness of things is what the great university is all about, and I believe the great university in the coming century will be described as a community of scholars.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Education, Believe, Community

  Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass

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• Letting the last breath come.
  Letting the last breath go.
  Dissolving, dissolving into vast space,
  the light body released from its heavier form.
  A sense of connectedness with all that is,
  all sense of separation dissolved
  in the vastness of being.
  Each breath melting into space
  as though it were the last.

  Stephen Levine

  Rest In Peace, Light, Space

  Stephen Levine (2010). “Healing into Life and Death”, p.281, Anchor

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• The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

  Mu Xin

  Wind, Principles, Culture

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• Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).

  Tony Hsieh

  Numbers, Vision, Progress

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.153, Hachette UK

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• Unless our fundamental sacred connectedness with every being and thing is experienced deeply and enacted everywhere, religious, political, and other differences will go on creating intolerable conflict that can only increase the already dangerously high chances of our self-annihilation.

  Andrew Harvey

  Mother, Religious, Differences

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.187, North Atlantic Books

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• Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.

  David Spangler

  Spiritual, Powerful, Practice

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• In order for the Prevail Scenario to work ... you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.

  Joel Garreau

  Opportunity, Order, Differences

  Joel Garreau (2005). “Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies -- and What It Means to Be Human”, p.220, Broadway Books

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