"I wish my house to be a college, open as the air to all whom I spiritually belong, and who belong to me."

-- Emerson

"When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them."

-- Martin Buber

"The only way to move through the disappointment of relationships without harming ourselves and others is to actually open the heart more at the very moments we would most like to close it."

-- John Welwood

"Three failed relationships in as many years are more likely to force you into awakening than three years on a desert island or shut away in your room."

-- Eckhart Tolle