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Happiness is self-connectedness. -- Aristotle
True joy results when we become aware of our connectedness to everything. -- Paul Pearsall
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created. -- Joan Halifax
Everything that is in the heavens, on earth, and under the earth is penetrated with connectedness, penetrated with relatedness. -- Hildegard of Bingen
In a sense the physical connectedness that you feel with your children as a mother changes as they become independent. -- Polixeni Papapetrou
In long-term relationships ... we are called upon to navigate that delicate balance between separateness and connectedness ... we confront the challenge of sustaining both--without losing either. -- Harriet Lerner
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
No one cares / who is better / who is worse / who has more / who has less. / Content in our connectedness / we are brothers and sisters / after all. -- Adele Faber
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others. -- Harriet Lerner
Because dogs and cats still live in the original state of connectedness with Being, they can help us regain it. When we do so, however, that original state deepens and turns into awareness. -- Eckhart Tolle
We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it's never a question of 'critical mass.' It's always about critical connections. -- Grace Lee Boggs
What can educators do to foster real intelligence?.. .We can attempt to teach the things that one might imagine the earth would teach us: silence, humility, holiness, connectedness, courtesy, beauty, celebration, giving, restoration, obligation, and wildness. -- David W. Orr
At its most basic, the spiritual is the experience of the connectedness that underlies reality. The depth of that experience depends on the capacity of the individual to set aside considerations of self, thereby gaining access to connection. -- Arthur J. Deikman
Love is not a doing but a state of being - a relatedness, a connectedness to another mortal, an identification with her or him that simply flows within me and through me, independent of my intentions or my efforts. -- Robert A. Johnson
I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and glory of a dark night sky filled with countless stars loses a sense of their fundamental connectedness to the universe. -- Brian Greene
I do believe in an everyday sort of magic -- the inexplicable connectedness we sometimes experience with places, people, works of art and the like; the eerie appropriateness of moments of synchronicity; the whispered voice, the hidden presence, when we think we're alone. -- Charles de Lint
War is unthinkable in a society of autonomous people who have discovered the connectedness of all humanity, who are unafraid of alien ideas and alien cultures, who know that all revolutions begin within and that you cannot impose your brand of enlightenment on anyone else. -- Marilyn Ferguson
The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes. -- Eckhart Tolle
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sentient compassion is a must; it has to be developed in order to alleviate cruelty and thoughtless acts. That won't happen if you develop a sense of compassion. You'll have that connectedness, that knowing that the same life that's in you is in every other being, so you're not going to mishandle life. -- David S. Ware
Feeling will get you closer to the truth of who you are than thinking. I cannot tell you anything that deep within you don't already know. When you have reached a certain stage of inner connectedness, you recognize the truth when you hear it. If you haven't reached that stage yet, the practice of body awareness will bring about the deepening that is necessary. -- Eckhart Tolle
The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being. It is a state of connectedness with something immeasurable and indestructible, something that, almost paradoxically, is essentially you and yet is much greater than you. It is finding your true nature beyond name and form. -- Eckhart Tolle
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety. -- Allan Bloom
Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Connection and connectedness are other words for community and communion. -- Parker J. Palmer
Compassion is a reflection of our connectedness. Your voice is need and much appreciated! -- Widad Akrawi
Cultivate humility it is the way of connectedness. Beware of false humility it leads to self-righteousness. -- Arthur Dobrin
Thought began to take over and obscured the simple yet profound joy of connectedness with being. -- Eckhart Tolle
Strong lives are those that are marked by a sense of purpose, connectedness, resilience, and fulfillment. -- Jenifer Fox
I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that. -- J. H. Wyman
There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter. -- Bill Keller
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. -- Peter Block
Alienation is perhaps the most effective tool of control in America, and every reminder of our real connectedness weakens that tool. -- Tim DeChristopher
The flow of spiritual connectedness and oneness with life will dwell in you if your heart and mind is open and innocent. -- Bryant McGill
If we had adhered to the concept of connectedness, then we would not have created nuclear weapons, huge armies and global warming. -- Satish Kumar
For me, teaching is about weaving a web of connectedness between myself, my students, the subject I'm teaching, and the larger world. -- Parker J. Palmer
In the same way you can never go backward to a slower computer, you can never go backward to a lessened state of connectedness. -- Douglas Coupland
People die from lack of shared empathy and affinity. By establishing social connectedness, we give hope a chance and the other can become heaven. ( "Le ciel c'est l'autre" ) -- Erik Pevernagie
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
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
When we are at ease, our bodies work efficiently, our minds settle, and space opens up for us to connect to our intuition, creativity, and sense of connectedness. -- Tara Stiles
I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them. -- Oprah Winfrey
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
I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away. -- Edgar Mitchell
A tree is such a rich metaphor in a million beautiful ways. You can consider a tree growing and consider its connectedness to all things above and under the ground. -- Ann Brashares
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
If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved. -- Satish Kumar
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
The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness... even if it's just for an instant. -- Beryl Bender Birch
I'm not any different from you or the guy down the street or across the globe, we're all connected in some way and hopefully my music can integrate that feeling of human connectedness. -- John McLaughlin
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
What we need to get right is not focusing on the fear associated with quantity - not enough, scarcity, and lack - and moving instead to a worldview that explores quality and connectedness. -- Frances Moore LappÃ©

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