{"quotes":[{"text":"It does not matter what religion you are, so long as your conscience guides your words and actions. We are all reflections of God means we are all reflections of his image — which is LIGHT. There is only one God and that is the cosmic heart of the universe — whatever you choose to call him or her. The heart within us is what connects us to God (the heart of the universe). This super basic concept is preached in all religions. God is TRUTH and LIGHT, and only through your conscience do you connect to him. Any person who does not use their conscience is very disconnected from God. Because again, the language of light can only be decoded by the heart.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["action","actions","bad","concept","connected","conscience","cosmic-heart","dark","disconnected","evil","faith","faithful","god","good","heart","heart-of-the-universe","hearts","how-well-do-you-know-god","image","image-of-god","images","imperfect","knowing-god","light","love","many-paths","one-god","people","perfection","reflections","relfection","religion","religious","religious-faith","righteous","science","test-of-faith","truth","universe","word","words"],"id":3502,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Every few minutes or so I would remember the look from the man who had wanted fifty cents, and I'd look at that framed memory hanging in myself and it meant I was here, back in this sick city, but in other ways I was not here at all and anyone who looked closely could see that I had nothing to give, that I was a junk drawer, a collection of things that may or may not have had a use.","author":"Catherine Lacey","tags":["catherine-lacey","disconnected","mental-illness","metaphor","nobody-is-ever-missing","nothing-to-give","removed"],"id":8737,"author_id":"Catherine+Lacey"},{"text":"A bulimic person may be so disconnected from her experience that she does not even know what she needs or wants. If she does not know, needing something or someone only confirms her sense that she is weak and inadequate. She believes her needs are not legitimate, and therefore finds it difficult to seek care or engage with any care she does manage to seek. In fact, she is likely to greet others' expressions of concern with contempt, the very contempt with which she views herself'.","author":"Sheila M. Reindl","tags":["bulimia","disconnected","eating-disorders","psychology"],"id":48047,"author_id":"Sheila+M.+Reindl"},{"text":"Along with all those who left their countries for other shores, I belong in neither land. We are unmoored and disconnected, like these poplar seeds blown into the crevices of the buildings, into the corners of the world.","author":"Elena Gorokhova","tags":["disconnected","immigration","lost"],"id":55718,"author_id":"Elena+Gorokhova"},{"text":"The glow of the steetlamps sat heavy and thick above me. As I walked aimlessly, in the direction of downtown, I returned to my theories. That Mizuko and I shared the pictorial equivalent of DNA. That a sympathetic magic existed between us, no matter how far apart we were pulled. That we defied physical laws of time and space, waves, gravity, the rules laid down by physicists which governed our physical universe (earthquakes, tsunamis) and physical bodies. And yet somehow our connection had led to the opposite of intimacy. My search had led to its opposite. I had never felt so isolated and disconnected, even from myself.","author":"Olivia Sudjic","tags":["connection","disconnected","intimacy","isolated","not-enough","olivia-sudjic","soulmates","sympathetic-magic","sympathy"],"id":90245,"author_id":"Olivia+Sudjic"},{"text":"We cannot leave our children disconnected from opportunities that are designed specially for them.","author":"Sharad Vivek Sagar","tags":["children","dexterity","dexterity-global","disconnected","education","opportunities","platform","sharad-sagar","sharad-sagar-official"],"id":193751,"author_id":"Sharad+Vivek+Sagar"},{"text":"Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.","author":"Eloisa James","tags":["disconnected","phones","technology","technology-addiction"],"id":269968,"author_id":"Eloisa+James"},{"text":"Living in sterile man-made environments that are disconnected from nature should be expected to lead to sickness.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["disconnected","environments","expected","lead","living","made","man","man-made","nature","sickness","sterile"],"id":317036,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still.","author":"Henry David Thoreau","tags":["busy-life","connectedness","disconnected","in-the-moment","life-philosophy","writing"],"id":318731,"author_id":"Henry+David+Thoreau"},{"text":"Following the death of his wife, Sam Johnson wrote to the Reverend Mr. Thomas Warton, 'I have ever since seemed to myself broken off from mankind; a kind of solitary wanderer in the wilds of life, without any certain direction, or fixed point of view: a gloomy gazer on a world to which I have little relation.' But my wife wasn't dead, merely absent.","author":"Mordecai Richler","tags":["apathy","break-up","break-ups","depression","disconnected","grief","grieve","loss-of-faith","loss-of-hope","loss-of-love","loss","love","relationship","wander","wanderer","wandering"],"id":337559,"author_id":"Mordecai+Richler"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":11,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}