Inner Connection Quotes

“I think of human existence as being like a two-story house. On the rst oor people gather together to take their meals, watch television, and talk. e second oor contains private chambers, bedrooms where people go to read books, listen to music by themselves, and so on. en there is a basement;
this is a special place, and there are a number of things stored here. We don’t use this room much in our daily life, but some- times we come in, vaguely hang around the place. en, my thought is that underneath that basement room is yet another basement room. is one has a very special door, very di - cult to gure out, and normally you can’t get in there—some people never get in at all. . . . You go in, wander about in the darkness, and experience things there you wouldn’t see in the normal parts of the house. You connect with your past there, because you have entered into your own soul. But then you come back. If you stay over there for long you can never get back to reality.”
― Haruki Murakami

“My feet stand in grass
mowed and wet,
drops of water shine.
It has rained,
so have my eyes.

[Sky Bound]”
― Susan L. Marshall, Bare Spirit: The Selected Poems of Susan Marshall

“Cultivating your emotional awareness
through your authentic and direct experience of feelings is one of the most powerful means to access and awaken your inner connection.”
― Markus William Kasunich