{"quotes":[{"text":"As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.","author":"Rivera Sun","tags":["connection","hearts","inspirational","love","magic","philosophy","spirituality","universal-truths","universe"],"id":971,"author_id":"Rivera+Sun"},{"text":"If your consciousness is without form, without quality, and without characteristics of any kind, would that not imply that the consciousness in every other being is also formless? And if they are all without form, how can you distinguish their consciousness from your own? What forms would you use to compare them? Isn’t the observing you exactly the same as the observing them?","author":"Joseph P. Kauffman","tags":["acceptance","appreciation","awakening","awareness","awe","bliss","brahman","buddhism","compassion","connection","consciousness","emotional","enjoy","enlightenment","evolution","existence","fear","forgiveness","freedom","god","gratitude","happiness","heart","hinduism","holographic-universe","illusion","journey","joy","life","love","maya","mental","mind","mystery","nature","nirvana","non-resistence","nonduality","now","oneness","path","peace","presence","reality","samadhi","self","self-acceptence","self-love","spirit","spiritual","spirituality","third-eye","truth","unity","universe","wisdom","within","zen"],"id":1788,"author_id":"Joseph+P.+Kauffman"},{"text":"My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.","author":"Anna White","tags":["acceptance","challenge","connection","faith","fear","friendship","grace","love","memoir","relationship","sisterhood","surrender"],"id":2391,"author_id":"Anna+White"},{"text":"You're sexy and suave and you say the right things, but unless you can reach into my soul and tantalize my mind our connection will be null and void.","author":"Melody Lee","tags":["connection","love","relationships","soul"],"id":2398,"author_id":"Melody+Lee"},{"text":"Our culture has bred consumers and addicts. We eat too much, buy too much, and want too much. We set ourselves on the fruitless mission of filling the gaping hole within us with material things. Blindly, we consume more and more, believing we are hungry for more food, status, or money, yet really we are hungry for connection.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["addiction","connection","consumerism","hope","love","materialism","spirituality"],"id":2553,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"There are few things more powerful than people united. What they unite over is not what matters. ... The most important aspect is remembering our existing connection, and, through that, allowing ourselves to feel at peace.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["coming-together","connection","love","peace","people","people-united","unity"],"id":5013,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep.","author":"Pablo Neruda","tags":["connection","mine"],"id":5053,"author_id":"Pablo+Neruda"},{"text":"Captain Dan Miller about space: It is full \u0026 silent...It is like a woman with a secret. I felt as if I were seeing something of myself...I felt as if I were somehow connected to these great beings.","author":"Lynne Branard","tags":["connection","space","woman-with-a-secret"],"id":7082,"author_id":"Lynne+Branard"},{"text":"From the deepest silence between us arose uncertain, utterly vague and, as it were, whispered varieties on the theme ‘smile’.","author":"Nicola Lecca","tags":["connection","falling-in-love","shyness","smile"],"id":7775,"author_id":"Nicola+Lecca"},{"text":"There is a deep interconnectedness of all life on earth, from the tiniest organisms, to the largest ecosystems, and absolutely between each person.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["connection","ecosystem","natural-world","organism"],"id":9574,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":499,"pages":50,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}