Tag: human connection
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Reading a book is harder than scrolling. Raising a child is harder than traveling. Sex is harder than porn. Talking in person is harder than messaging. Writing is harder than prompting. Eating well is harder than eating badly. Moving is harder...
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The need for intimacy in a human life and in a human social life is as foundational as our daily hunger and our never ending thirst, and needs to be met in just the same practical way, every day, just as necessarily and just as frequently: in touch,...
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What has become clear to me is that without intimate human connection, however fleeting, we are lost.
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The miracle is this: The more we share, the more we have
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Here lies the paradox of solitude. Look long and hard enough at yourself in isolation and suddenly you will see the rest of humanity staring back. Sustained aloneness brings you to a tipping point where the pendulum of life returns you to others.
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To connect people at the deepest level, you need stories.
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Every act of communication is an act of tremendous courage in which we give ourselves over to two parallel possibilities: the possibility of planting into another mind a seed sprouted in ours and watching it blossom into a breathtaking flower of...
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We need a witness to our lives. There are billions of people on the planet…I mean, what does any one life really mean? But in a marriage, you’re promising to care about everything – the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the...
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If we look with curiosity at people who do not share our values, they become interesting rather than threatening. As I’ve grown older I’ve learnt that the world and the people in it are surprisingly interesting, and that the more you look and...
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Harvard's longest longitudinal study says... that the people who live the best lives, the most fulfilled lives weren't the ones who made the most money, they weren't the ones that stayed the healthiest, they weren't the ones that exercised the most,...