Porn is a clear example of how our culture is feeding the disease of addiction. The natural impulse to have sex becomes a compulsion to masturbate. The attraction to connect is culturally translated by pornography into a numb and lonely staring strum at broken digital ghosts. The most physically cre…
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Quotes tagged ‘Connection’
We’re often afraid of being vulnerable, but vulnerability creates genuine connection.
nod, n.: After a certain point, it doesn’t need to be a yes – it’s just an acknowledgment of what’s already understood between us.
There are some people in life that you can't get over.
You disappear so completely into your head sometimes…I wish I could follow you.
Everything she did and love, everything she was, required language.
How long has it been since someone touched part of you other than your body?
All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.
I can only connect deeply or not at all.
In the mind perfect intelligence flourished and reigned, uprightness attended as its companion, and all the senses were prepared and moulded for due obedience to reason; and in the body there was a suitable correspondence with this internal order.
He saw her before he saw anything else in the room.
I can only connect deeply or not at all.
Preaching is not talking to people about the Bible; it is talking to people about themselves from the Bible.
They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.
The world and life are one.
it is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.
I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.
Why is it, he said…I feel I’ve known you so many years?’Because I like you, she said, and I don’t want anything from you.
it is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and presence matches yours at that moment.
You'll stay with me? Until the very end.