Intangible Connections Quotes

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.

Community is another such phenomenon. Like electricity, it is profoundly lawful. Yet there remains something about it that is inherently mysterious, miraculous, unfathomable. Thus there is no adequate one-sentence definition of genuine community. Community is something more than the sum of its parts, its individual members. What is this "something more?" Even to begin to answer that, we enter a realm that is not so much abstract as almost mystical. It is a realm where words are never fully suitable and language itself falls short.

Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.

It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that can't be proven. I don't know, I don't think that's it.

These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.