“Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually.”

—  Richard Bach

Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritua…" by Richard Bach?
Richard Bach photo
Richard Bach154
American spiritual writer 1936

Related quotes

Michael Elmore-Meegan photo

“All our emotional scars and mental stress come from the pain of being fully accepted and cherished in ourselves.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian

All shall be well (2014)

Nithyananda photo

“Intuition is the energy of your being. When this pure energy starts flowing out from the unconscious level, it also heals you physically, mentally and emotionally. Apart from healing, it reduces stress and helps you to make decisions spontaneously.”

Nithyananda (1978) Indian guru

Guaranteed Solutions

Horace Mann photo

“Physics is the Science of Matter; Metaphysics the Science of Mind — the Science of Being, apart from accidents and properties — Ontology.”

Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann (1872), p. 215

Aldo Leopold photo

“There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.”

Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac

“February: Good Oak”, p. 6.
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"

Aldous Huxley photo

“The self is coming from a state of pure awareness from the state of being. All the rest that comes about in a outward manifesation of the physical world, including fluctuations which end up as thoughts and actions”

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963) English writer

Source: The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Frank O'Hara photo

“When I die, don't come, I wouldn't want a leaf
to turn away from the sun -- it loves it there.
There's nothing so spiritual about being happy
but you can't miss a day of it, because it doesn't last.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

Nadine Gordimer photo

“The process of standing apart and being involved has come.”

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer

Writing and Being (1991)
Context: With adolescence comes the first reaching out to otherness through the drive of sexuality. For most children, from then on the faculty of the imagination, manifest in play, is lost in the focus on day dreams of desire and love, but for those who are going to be artists of one kind or another the first life-crisis after that of birth does something else in addition: the imagination gains range and extends by the subjective flex of new and turbulent emotions. There are new perceptions. The writer begins to be able to enter into other lives. The process of standing apart and being involved has come.

James Frazer photo

“The notion that we can transfer our guilt and sufferings to some other being who will bear them for us is familiar to the savage mind. It arises from a very obvious confusion between the physical and the mental, between the material and the immaterial.”

James Frazer book The Golden Bough

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 55, The Transference of Evil.

Saul D. Alinsky photo

“Change comes from power, and power comes from organization. In order to act, people must get together.”

Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer

Source: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971), p. 113

Clarence Thomas photo

“No good comes from being in the woods.”

Clarence Thomas (1948) Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

On the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a Supreme Court Justice; reported in Robert Barnes, &quot; For 25 years, it has been Clarence Thomas v. Controversy https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/after-25-years-supporters-praise-clarence-thomas-but-controversy-is-always-near/2016/10/30/3fba40e4-9d24-11e6-a0ed-ab0774c1eaa5_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines&amp;wpmm=1&quot;, Washington Post (October 30, 2016). <br class="br">2010s

Related topics