Eknath Easwaran Quotes

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other person have two separate bodies, two separate skins?

What brings two people together anyway?

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

I think I have some very meaningful relationships with people; we all do. At the same time, I recognize that everyone is following their own heart; there's been people who have left my life, and I don't have a problem with that. This is a transitory world; we're all spirits just looking for love and finding it and holding on.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to magnify love, openness, and depth.

Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody—so utterly well known and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?

Friendship is communion.

Close, close all night the lovers keep. They turn together in their sleep, Close as two pages in a book that read each other in the dark. Each knows all the other knows, learned by heart from head to toes.

We need to be together, and love each other.

Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

I believe love is the most powerful energy we have in this life. Everything is about love.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

All who love are conspirators.

I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.

I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.