{"quotes":[{"text":"A fixation with connecting with 'friends' online comes with the risk of disconnection with friends waiting for you to be present in the offline world.","author":"Craig Hodges","tags":["connection","disconnection","friends","internet","social-media"],"id":14279,"author_id":"Craig+Hodges"},{"text":"Along with the mystical wonderment and sense of ecological responsibility that comes with the recognition of connectedness, more disturbing images come to mind. When applied to economics, connectedness seems to take the form of chain stores, multinational corporations, and international trade treaties which wipe out local enterprise and indigenous culture. When I think of it in the realm of religion, I envision smug missionaries who have done such a good job of convincing native people everywhere that their World-Maker is the same as God, and by this shoddy sleight of hand have been steadily impoverishing the world of the great fecundity and complex localism of belief systems that capture truths outside the Western canon. And I wonder—if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings at strategic places?","author":"Malcolm Margolin","tags":["connectedness","control","disconnection","diversity"],"id":37079,"author_id":"Malcolm+Margolin"},{"text":"To think that two bodies, crooked by life into question marks, when encountering one another did not form a heart.. To do that, all we needed was to look each other in the eye. But you looked away.","author":"Anna Jae","tags":["disconnection","heartbreak","rejection"],"id":63904,"author_id":"Anna+Jae"},{"text":"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.","author":"John Joseph Powell","tags":["affection","alone","beauty","camaraderie","caring","caring-for-others","closeness","companionship","compassion","connectedness","connection","disconnection","empathy","estrangement","fellowship","friendship","friendship","hug","hugs","intimacy","isolation","kindness","kindred-spirits","loneliness","love","love-at-first-sight","love","lovers","loving","loving-someone","mirror","mutuality","partnership","reciprocal","reciprocity","reflected-in-you","relationship","relationship","relationships","romance","self-belief","self-esteem","self-hatred","self-realization","self-worth","self-worthiness","soul-mate","soulmates","togetherness","touch","twin-flames"],"id":67576,"author_id":"John+Joseph+Powell"},{"text":"If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["awakening","breakup","chances","conversation","detachment","disconnection","food-for-thought","foward","friends","gone","growing-up","growth","no-need","reason","sail","separation","set-sail","ship","waste"],"id":77035,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"We can think of dissociation as psychological disconnection from one or more of three major spheres of experience: (a) the here and now, I.E., orientation to time and place; (b) other people, I.E., interpersonal communion; and (c) one’s own subjective experience, e.G., visceral sensation, physical pain, affect, or sense of identity. The various manifestations of pathological dissociation e.G., amnesia, depersonalization, identity fragmentation–can be understood as manifestations of these dimensions of disconnection.","author":"Steven N. Gold","tags":["amnesia","depersonalization","disconnection","dissociated","dissociation","dissociative-amnesia","dissociative-disorders","identity"],"id":103487,"author_id":"Steven+N.+Gold"},{"text":"We are like puzzle pieces who are perfectly suited to make a giant picture together, but we are assembling ourselves in the dark.","author":"Vironika Tugaleva","tags":["disconnection","fear","isolation","loneliness","relationships","separation","vulnerability"],"id":105430,"author_id":"Vironika+Tugaleva"},{"text":"Trust isn’t something you can just one day decide to have. Trust cannot be fabricated out of thin air, no matter how one’s will is set to it. Trust has to be earned. And there’s the tragedy of it, the dependence on the other, who is often not up for the challenge, poisoned as he is by the modern individualistic and time-is-money mindset. And thus trust is losing ground more and more until one day it will turn into something rare and obscure and this world has become a severly violent and lonely place, ruled by mistrust and disconnection.","author":"Anna Jae","tags":["disconnection","humanity","mistrust","trust"],"id":142731,"author_id":"Anna+Jae"},{"text":"They are so caught up in their happiness that they don't realize I'm not really a part of it. I am wandering along the periphery. I am like the people in the Winslow Homer paintings, sharing the same room with them but not really there. I am like the fish in the aquarium, thinking in a different language, adapting to a life that's not my natural habitat. I am the people in the other cars, each with his or her own story, but passing too quickly to be noticed or understood. . . . There are moments I just sit in my frame, float in my tank, ride in my car and say nothing, think nothing that connects me to anything at all.","author":"David Levithan","tags":["disconnection","loneliness","misunderstood","not-belonging","peripheral","unnoticed"],"id":208926,"author_id":"David+Levithan"},{"text":"There are many types of marriage relationships and all of them can work, but none is sadder than the one that doesn't represent peace in your heart.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["arranged-marriages","arrangements","choices","constant-fights","couples","decisions","disconnection","divorce-101","divorce-care","feelings","friendship-only","guilt-trips","heart","love","marriage","marriage-counseling","marriage-relationships","overcoming","peace","relationships","restless","rollercoaster-rides","self-honesty","spouses","staying-for-kids","stayingpositiveuniversity-com","trials","undecided"],"id":232810,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":17,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}