Disconnection Quotes

• We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

  Alan Ball

  Real, Community, Certain

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  Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Inspirational, Funny, Letting Go

  FaceBook post by Natalie Goldberg from Jul 25, 2011

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• Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loneliness, Emotional, Self

  Sherry Turkle (1985). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, Touchstone Books

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• Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that connection holds in our lives was confirmed when the main concern about connection emerged as the fear of disconnection; the fear that something we have done or failed to do, something about who we are or where we come from, has made us unlovable and unworthy of connection.

  Brené Brown

  Giving, Connections, Where We Come

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• Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational Life, Giving, Purpose

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin

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• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Life, Stress, Lying

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• The result of bad communication is a disconnection between strategy and execution.

  Chuck Martin

  Communication, Execution, Strategy

  Chuck Martin (2005). “Tough Management: The 7 Winning Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow the Business in Good Times and Bad”, p.12, McGraw Hill Professional

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• We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity even if we must manufacture it from our time on the Web and our use of calling cards to connect long distance. We must “log on” somewhere, and if it is only in cyberspace, that is still far better than nowhere at all. (264)

  Julia Cameron

  Distance, Loneliness, Bridges

  Julia Cameron (2001). “God is No Laughing Matter”, p.161, Penguin

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• Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Soul

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• There's a fundamental disconnection in society in the way we live, this way we live that we take so for granted, and we've become very separate from one another and we don't really take lot of time to realize that. And the math is overwhelming to the point of despair, but the answers could be so simple.

  Amanda Palmer

  Math, Simple, Despair

  "Amanda Palmer: Artist. Music Icon. Crowdfunding Legend. Disrupter. Feminist". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Stress, Earth, Forget

  Natalie Goldberg (2011). “Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life”, p.206, Open Road Media

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• Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.

  Brené Brown

  Empathy, Connections, Fuel

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• Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Demand, Contemporary

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• I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.

  Gregory Crewdson

  Love, Beauty, Sadness

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• There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.

  Esther Hicks

  Law, Kitchen, Important

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• Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Responsibility, Criticism

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• Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

  Edward Hallowell

  Excellence, Lack Of Respect

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A widening circle of researchers believes that the loss of natural habitat, or the disconnection from nature even when it is available, has enormous implications for human health and child development. They say the quality of exposure to nature affects our health at an almost cellular level.

  Richard Louv

  Children, Believe, Loss

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.41, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Crucially we haven't been figuring out how to live in oneness, with the Earth & every other living thing; we have just been insanely trying to figure out how to live with each other, billions of each other, only we're not living with each other our crazy selves are living with each other, and perpetuating an epidemic of disconnection.

  Thandie Newton

  Crazy, Epidemics, Self

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• But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I’m subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.

  Clarice Lispector

  Eye, Two, Darkness

  Clarice Lispector (1989). “Agua Viva”, p.20, U of Minnesota Press

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• We can be the one to take the first courageous step toward the other and to do something or to try to do something other than rejection or attack. We can do this with our siblings and our mates and our friends and our colleagues. We can do this with the disconnection and the discord all around us.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sibling, Rejection, Trying

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

  Spike Jonze

  Nice, Loneliness, Needs

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• There are many times when I have to remind myself that people who harm others are coming from a place of profound disconnection. It is not easy to recognize the pain such a person is in, especially because they may not be conscious of it themselves. They may present themselves to the world as just fine. If you believe human beings have a potential for deep connection, wisdom and love; the limitation in those peoples' lives becomes clearer.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Believe, People

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness of scattered settlements, in what is now a sprawl of suburban edge cities and satellite towns. Technology forges connections and disconnections here.

  B. W. Powe

  Technology, Land, Cities

  "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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