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.
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
We have much more in common with other people than we have apart.
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.
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.
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.
Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.
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.
