Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

To connect with the great river we all need a path, but when you get down there there's only one river.

The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

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.

One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

In this world, and all the things we have going on, we're all human beings.

We hunger for connection to a larger community.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled but halved. No man is an island

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.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

When a poet writes a poem, meaning arises - because the poet is not alone; he has created something. When a dancer dances, meaning arises. When a mother gives birth to a child, meaning arises. Left alone, cut off from everything else, isolated like an island, you are meaningless. Joined together you are meaningful. The bigger the whole, the bigger is the meaning.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

As you discover what strength you can draw from your community in this world from which it stands apart, look outward as well as inward. Build bridges instead of walls.

Two of the most powerful words you can hear someone say are ‘me too.’

O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.

Immortals are never alien to one another.

The journey never happens alone.

What's the point of a spark of light if it stands alone? The key is, and will always be, synergy. Without it, each and every light being will forever feel broken, misplaced, and internally crippled.

I exist in two places, here and where you are.

Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")