Disconnecting Quotes

• If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.

  Robert Fritz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual Vision

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• To meditate for world peace, to pray for a better world, and to work for social justice and environmental protection while continuing to purchase the flesh, milk, and eggs of horribly abused animals exposes a disconnect that is so fundamental that it renders our efforts absurd, hypocritical, and doomed to certain failure.

  Will Tuttle

  Prayer, Failure, Hypocrite

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.197, Lantern Books

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• Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

  Regina Brett

  Eye, Hands, People

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• Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

  Kathleen Norris

  Inspirational, Change, Past

  Kathleen Norris (2001). “Dakota: A Spiritual Geography”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now the stream of our common consciousness seems to be obliterating its own banks, losing its central direction and purpose, flooding the lowlands, disconnecting and isolating the highlands and to no particular purpose other than the wasteful fulfillment of its own internal momentum

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Momentum, Purpose, Losing

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

  JR

  Thinking, Media, Social

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• When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.

  Alanis Morissette

  Thinking, Creating, Integration

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• Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

  Henri Nouwen

  Hurt, Loss, Effort

  Henri Nouwen (2004). “Turn My Mourning into Dancing”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

  William S. Burroughs

  Psychics, Energy, Junk

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!

  Anne Frank

  Revenge, Men, Doors

  Anne Frank, General Press (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.49, GENERAL PRESS

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• There are people who are very good at disconnecting themselves and becoming other people, and separating from their family lives and going on. They change their names, they become someone else entirely, maybe out west.

  Marco Roth

  Names, People, West

  Source: therumpus.net

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