#connect

Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#art #connection #story #art

The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#between #book #connections #constitution #debates

A COnNeCtworker is a networker who is always taking into account the needs of others. Approaching people with a service attitude to bring them value and build a relationship. Then when that person is looking for a reliable service provider in a particular industry, they will pick the COnNeCtworker. ↗

— Michele Jennae

#connectworker #networking #relationships #attitude

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid. ↗

— Eloisa James

#phones #technology #technology-addiction #love

Two chemicals called actin and myosin evolved eons ago to allow the muscles in insect wings to contract and relax. Thus, insects learned to fly. When one of those paired molecules are absent, wings will grow but they cannot flap and are therefore useless. Today, the same two proteins are responsible for the beating of the human heart, and when one is absent, the person’s heartbeat is inefficient and weak, ultimately leading to heart failure. Again, science marvels at the way molecules adapt over millions of years, but isn’t there a deeper intent? In our hearts, we feel the impulse to fly, to break free of boundaries. Isn’t that the same impulse nature expressed when insects began to take flight? The prolactin that generates milk in a mother’s breast is unchanged from the prolactin that sends salmon upstream to breed, enabling them to cross from saltwater to fresh. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#mind-body-connection #spirituality #life

It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#equality

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#life #experience

One way poetry connects is across time. . . . Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. ↗

— Jane Hirshfield

#experience #poetry #time #experience

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#spirituality #experience

Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all. ↗

— Deborah Day

#encourage #friendship #kindness #motivational #support