Disconnected Quotes - Page 2

To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality. It is not even to come up with a solution, a sort of formula to control reality. Rather, it is an experience of release from all compulsions and sufferings, combined with a precise awareness of any relevent subject of knowledge. Having attained enlightenment one knows everything that matters, and the precise nature of all that is.

Robert Thurman

Knowledge, Reality, Oneness

FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Oct 17, 2014

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We start out as little bits of disconnected dust.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Dust, Littles, Bits

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Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

Tony Campolo

Past, Forget, Forgotten

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All the lines that held me to my life were sliced apart in swift cuts, like clipping the strings of a bunch of balloons. Everything that made me who I was - my love for the dead girl upstairs, my love for my father, my loyalty to my new pack, the love for my other brothers, my hatred for my enemies, my home, my name, my self - disconnected from me in that second - snip, snip, snip - and floated up into space.

Stephenie Meyer

Girl, Loyalty, Brother

Stephenie Meyer (2009). “Breaking Dawn: Twilight”, p.212, Hachette UK

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Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.

Boyd K. Packer

Independent, Responsibility, Self

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That's something that I'm trying to do in my work, to send a message to western people. They're the ones who are completely disconnected.

Marina Abramovic

People, Trying, Messages

Source: www.marieclaire.com

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Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Brian Weiss

Relationship, Letting Go, Past

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Disconnected from my feminine soul, I had also unknowingly forfeited my power to name sacred reality. I had simply accepted what men had named. Neither had I noticed that when women give this power away, it is rarely used to liberate and restore value to women. More often it is used to shore up and enhance the privileged position of men.

Sue Monk Kidd

Reality, Men, Names

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Big box just wasn't our strength. We are a men's and boy's specialty store focused on providing high quality clothing with custom tailoring. Our customer is king. When we had seven stores, communication between the stores and with our customers became more disconnected. We started to lose that great family 'camaraderie' that is essentially the key to our success.

Paul Simon

Kings, Communication, Boys

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To live and breathe with an exclusive focus on one's small self, disconnected from the whole, is the definition of egotism.

Sharon Gannon

Self, Focus, Definitions

"Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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Through fear of knowing who we really are we sidestep our own destiny, which leaves us hungry in a famine of our own making...we end up living numb, passionless lives, disconnected from our soul's true purpose. But when you have the courage to shape your life from the essence of who you are, you ignite, becoming truly alive.

Dawna Markova

Destiny, Essence, Knowing

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Our chronic discomfort with ambiguity - which, ironically, is critical to both our creativity and the richness of our lives - leads us to lock down safe, comfortable, familiar interpretations, even if they are only partial representations of or fully disconnected from reality.

Maria Popova

Creativity, Reality, Locks

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Conventional economics is a form of brain damage. Economics is so fundamentally disconnected from the real world, it is destructive.

David Suzuki

Real, Brain, World

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Animals have come to mean so much in
our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly,
religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate.
What's one thing that we have in our lives
that we can depend on? A dog or a cat
loving us unconditionally , every day, very
faithfully.

Jon Katz

Dog, Struggle, Mean

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Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet.

Zadie Smith

Computer, Internet

"Zadie Smith's rules for writers". www.vice.com. February 22, 2010.

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I'm lonely. What kind of loneliness? Every kind. I feel disconnected. Abandoned. As always. Repetition. So what, my love? So what? At first, I just wanted to run away. Now I have no where else to run to, nothing to run from. I don't belong anywhere, I don't want to go anywhere, I just want to be happy.

Daul Kim

Running, Lonely, Loneliness

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I've been on hold for 30 minutes. I just got disconnected.

Jon Jones

Minutes

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It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to our own inner world. Without insight into our internal cycles of pleasure and pain, desires and fears, there is a strong sense of being removed, apart or disconnected. When we do have an understanding of our inner lives, it provides an intuitive opening, even without words, to the ties that exist between ourselves and others.

Sharon Salzberg

Strong, Pain, Ties

Sharon Salzberg (2012). “The Force of Kindness: Change Your Life with Love & Compassion”, p.32, Sounds True

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Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

Umberto Eco

Philosophy, Ideas, Should

Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.209, HMH

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It's nice to finally be thought of as sexy. I'm very disconnected from the sensual side of me, I know it's in me, but it doesn't really reveal itself very often in my personal life, which I do find problematic.

Amanda Seyfried

Sexy, Nice, Sensual

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In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

George Eliot

Strong, Pain, Taken

George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.31, Oxford Paperbacks

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Man is lonely mainly because he has been disconnected from the Divine presence.

James Johnson

Lonely, Men, Divine

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What I feel now is connected to people. I feel connected and I feel a lot of love for people. I feel the possibility of what building social movements and what working together in struggle creates. Whatever that energy is, it feels a lot better than what I felt when I was younger - which was worthless and disconnected and isolated and alone.

Eve Ensler

Struggle, People, Working Together

Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 2013.

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So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history tells us that whenever things start to move too fast, whenever progress makes people feel a little breathless, one of the go-to spots that government, that the ruling powers that society goes to is to try to repress women.

Anna Quindlen

Moving, Thinking, Government

Source: www.pbs.org

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I think it's different in fashion, because even if I would be an outsider, I would still be in the middle of the whole world of contemporary fashion. But it's interesting to think what outsider fashion could be. Does it mean to be completely disconnected from the regular system or just disconnected style-wise?

Raf Simons

Wise, Fashion, Mean

Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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