To understand and love this is to understand and love one's part in the whole scheme, but if we sever this, disconnect from the whole, look away from the violence, see anything outside of us as an 'other,' rely too deeply on Man alone and cloud our heads with the hopes of universal peace, we are destined to suffer.
This is disconnected from reality".
This is disconnected from the question of whether the Euro, which, historically speaking, was one of the conditions for German reunification, could be "toppled" at all by Germany.
But if all this is disconnected from patients and their needs, medicine will run the risk of ignoring the knowledge of its limits, which will objectively continue to exist in the light of the extreme complexity of the human being.
In the past two decades, this group, disconnected from the mainstream by an obscure theological disagreement, has been a vocal critic of the Dalai Lama, becoming the bogeyman of the Tibetan movement and its supporters worldwide.
When patients go abroad to receive care from doctors the regular family physician does not know, it can leave this physician disconnected from the patient's decision-making.
This leaves a great number of the nodes in this network completely disconnected from any larger component.
This may seem disconnected from reality, but it has real ramifications.
Ross Douthat, a columnist for the Times, wrote that a "marital ideal" would be lost — but he admitted that this ideal was disconnected from reality.
"A lot of modern general election politics is the spectacle of the campaign, and this is increasingly disconnected from the politics of the beltway" he said.
