I've been told that my voice is very distinctive. I've been told people feel extremely connected to it.
But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.
Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.
Our shared vision of belonging is the thread that weaves through every touchpoint on Airbnb.
You never get away from that thing in your hometown that it has over you. You don't outgrow where you come from.
God designed humans to live in community.
Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history... this is what makes you strong. It's not looking out that's going to do that - it's looking in.
In the early days of Twitter, it was like a place of radical de-shaming. People would admit shameful secrets about themselves, and other people would say, 'Oh my God, I'm exactly the same.' Voiceless people realized that they had a voice, and it was powerful and eloquent.
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.
I met my husband Itzik when I got back home to Israel from Oxford in 2002. He is my Internet-of-all-Things.
We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.
Orlando's a part of me. The next guy's a part of me. And the next guy's a part of me. That's all I'm trying to do, is tell cool stories that people can relate to.
When I was just a twenty-something, I came to Newark, and I found a connection to the city in a spiritual way. I found a connection here and people here that reminded me so much of my roots and my own family.
I think every being in the universe is connected somehow.
Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.
It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people.
Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.
Peter Beard is one of those people I've known a long time. We have an affinity. We share certain values.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
When you live away from your family, your friends and faculty become your family.
The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
