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unhooked telephone": the
We both hang up, but it's like there's still a connection. I can feel it.
And it feels good.
Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.
The more I believe that this is what the point of it all is. To connect, my dear little nerd. Only connect.
I disconnected myself to shield myself from people who would sway to my songs in the club and call me 'nigger' in the street. They were too busy seeing their own preconceived image of a Negro woman. the image that I chose to give them was of a woman who they could not reach and therefore can't hurt.
Life is like the Internet: sometimes is almost impossible to connect.
When we think of digitally disconnecting and inviting presence into our lives, we are creating the conditions of integration within and between.
The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.
There was a click and then nothing CALL DISCONECTED flashed on the digital display. "NO! NO!" Clary hit the redial button, her fingers trembling. Simon picked up immediatly.
"Sorry. Yossarian scratched me and I dropped the phone.
I disconnected and made a mental note not to call Tank unless I was bleeding profusely, and he was the only other person on earth.
When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time.
as soon as we become accustomed to the silent presence of a thing, it gets broken or disappears. My ties to the people around me were also marked by those two modes of impermanence: breaking up or disappearing.
Who I was ad who I had beed disconnected, leaving me stranded somewhere in the middle.
I'm not good at cutting off from work.
I'm used to being on the outskirts of a network, a connection that people use if they really need one.
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
IF OUR PHONE CONVERSATION GETS DISCONNECTED, THERE'S NO NEED TO CALL BACK I get it. You get it. We take forever getting off the phone anyway. This was a blessing.
Unlock untie yourself from people who rope u into redundancy
Different people have such different understandings of the connection (or lack of connection) between life on- and off-line
When you shut down the giving you shut down the receiving.
You know, it's not a given that there is an 'online' and 'offline' world out there. When you use the telephone, you don't say that I'm entering some 'telephono-sphere.' You don't say that, and there is no obvious need to say that when you are using a modem.
You've got to connect with the things that you love.
Being connected to everything has disconnected us from ourselves and the preciousness of this present moment.
Turn on, Tune in, Drop out
Poor communication doesn't disconnet souls. It's the disconnected souls who poorly communicate.
You either connect or you don't connect. It's not the end of the world. It's a movie.
Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go.
Break up of some relation sometime don't just break connection between two person,for some one it can be disconnection with his soul.and the disconnect between body and soul its mean death of a person
When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.
People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.
To be absent from the iPhone is to be present in the moment. Ignore it. Make some friends.
When we seek for connection, we restore the world to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other.
dropping out until become empty
I'm so tired of people saying that phones are disconnecting us from each other. I think they're connecting us too much. They're just connecting us to people who aren't in the same room with us.
Connect and communicate!
[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)
Detaching does not mean we don't care. It means we learn to love, care, and be involved without going crazy.
When I disconnect from Skype, I can let go of the cheerful face I've been trying to hold for Jess's sake.
Connect, connect.
When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.
The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material
the material informs the form,
Boredom strives to detach, but finds itself stuck.
shut off the bike,
I am always tying up
and then deciding to depart.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.Tcp-- Otis Redding
The goal of online dating is to get offline as quickly as possible.
One detaches oneself. One describes.
Every tragedy of the human experience can be attributed to one human decision - the decision to withdraw from each other.
When you are wondering how do you go on? The better question is, how do you NOT go on?
You can't disengage yourself from that game if you are completely unaware of what people out there might be doing, you're just going to be tripped up, you're going to find yourself continually at a disadvantage.
Connectivity becomes a craving.
Everyone's connected but no one is connecting.
I can only connect deeply or not at all.
I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect.
In our technology-crazed world, we've confused being communicative with feeling connected.
Sometimes solutions aren't so simple; sometimes goodbye's the only way.
This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.
The one thing that keeps us out of connection is our fear that we're not worthy of connection.
You know, it's hard sometimes to just detach yourself from what you're doing.
Can't stop the signal
Now, whenever I need to go online, I confine myself to a tight circle: Gmail, MLB, NYTimes, Slate and maybe Facebook.
I don't know how to let you go. I don't think I can do it.
You're one connection away from being able to change your life.
When you begin the process of unhooking from the outer world, you can find literally hundreds of places where you have given your power away and drained your life force while guaranteeing the status quo.
Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed - and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.
I can connect
Nothing with nothing
Connecting today is a dialogue.
I pulled the plug on it at a time that I thought was right for me to exit.
Great Gates almighty," HARV said inside my brain. "I go off-line for a few nanos and the whole world goes to DOS.
We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And
If I cut you off, chances are that you gave me enough reasons to do it.
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.
I leave to arrive,
go away to be closer.
We can literally unplug a country from the Internet. We ought to think about unplugging them.
Never quit-- persist.
You're here. So how can I leave?
The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.
I will not be back after these messages
Live in fragments no longer, only connect.
If we rush ceaselessly through disconnected activities without checking in on our moods or motives, we can lose track of ourselves; in a sense, we lose the ability to experience our experiences. A
Networking turns to spam when you stop interacting. Networking is a dialog.
I had to sever my emotional cord to escape the anger and shame that silently slithered through my head, disconnecting myself from the stares and whispers that followed me down the hall.
I don't want to be on the Internet.
We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.
Living a connected life ultimately is about setting boundaries, spending less time and energy hustling and winning over people who don't matter, and seeing the value of working on cultivating connection with family and close friends.
Once we become tethered to the network, we really don't need to keep computers busy. THEY KEEP US BUSY.
I didn't know how to let you go.
Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.
The world is full of moments when people cross the line from engagement into disengagement, replacing creativity and passion with stagnation and resentment.
The happiest and most fulfilled times of my life have all involved a prolonged separation from the Internet.
You know, I can't leave when I'm
not
actually here in the first place.
There are times I turn off my Wi-Fi, and I'm selective about what I want to share with the world now.
Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.
Miss me, but let me go.
Tune in, turn on, and drop out.
Today, I will apply the concept of detachment, to the best of my ability, in my relationships. If I can't let go completely, I'll try to "hang on loose.
If you are on a TV series and you have a hard time disassociating from that character when you get home, your love life is going to suffer, your children are going to suffer, your friends will suffer.
You can cut the ties that bind but not without losing a part of yourself. You can walk away and hide from the people who made you, but you'll always hear them calling your name.
You are so close, and I can't reach you.
Detachment, n. Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it.