Pema Chodron Quotes

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

No one was created to be alone.

We can only be human together.

I think people are universal.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We all need each other.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Life doesn't make any sense without interdependence. We need each other, and the sooner we learn that, the better for us all.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

No one person is an island.

The gospel of Jesus Christ is for everyone. We are all significant parts of the whole. I never think of myself as single; I think of myself as Sheri, a member of the Lord's Church.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

All we have is us. Our only hope of survival is each other.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

Everyone belongs to everyone else.

Community is where humility and glory touch.

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

I am human because I belong, I participate, I share.

We all are big believers in the notion that as a species we are better together than we are apart, that the common core of our shared humanity is stronger than that which seeks to marginalize us and factualize us and turn us against each other.

We often surround ourselves with the people we most want to live with, thus forming a club or clique, not a community. Anyone can form a club; it takes grace, shared vision, and hard work to form a community.

Creating an environment musically that shows that we all belong together is what I'm interested in doing, and that happened really early on.

Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in the very best possible way.