Quotes About Interconnectedness

The whole is not the sum of the parts, and neither is the whole greater than the sum of the parts. The whole is not a thing which acts as some kind of super-part, and neither can it be imposed on the parts. An authentic whole can only be encountered through the way in which it expresses itself through each part.

I cannot withdraw into myself. I exist, outside myself and everywhere in the world. There is not an inch of my path which does not encroach on the path of another: there is no way of being that can prevent me from overflowing myself at every moment. This life that I weave with my own substance, it offers other men a thousand unknown faces, it crosses impetuously their fate.

We should have with each person the relationship of one conception of the universe to another conception of the universe, and not to a part of the universe.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Once you start to trust your vibes, you begin to realize that we are more than physical beings who are separate from one another and limited to physical space and time. Instead, you begin to understand that we are spiritual beings, and whether our ego knows it or not, we are psychically connected and communicate with one another on different energetic levels—sharing thoughts, feelings, ideas, beliefs, and information all the time. This is known as telepathy.

Life and religion are one, or neither is any thing.

Life proceeds amid an incessant network of signals.

There's a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

We're all in this together - by ourselves.

He who puts off the light of another had sown the seed of darkness into his own future.

Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.

Now may every living thing, young or old, weak or strong, living near or far, known orunknown, living or departed or yet unborn, may every living thing be full of bliss.

We are one species out of a billion

We are as connected to each other, as time is to the clock.

We all travel the milky way together, trees and men... trees are travellers, in the ordinary sense. They make journeys, not very extensive ones, it is true: but our own little comes and goes are only little more than tree-wavings - many of them not so much.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Most people are on the world, not in it — have no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them — undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.

Like the two trees in our garden that had grown side by side, their trunks intertwining over the decades to accommodate and support one another.

It has been accurately said that if America's economy sneezes, the world catches a cold.

God is not a Christian, God is not a Jew, or a Muslim, or a Hindu, or a Buddhist. All of those are human systems which human beings have created to try to help us walk into the mystery of God. I honor my tradition, I walk through my tradition, but I don't think my tradition defines God, I think it only points me to God.

the feeling good we experience when we help others is not mainly about enhanced self-esteem. It reflects the satisfaction that comes from affirming we are social animals who need each other. Life is not all about me. It is about us. It is about expressing our uniqueness in the context of relationship with others.

Copernicus took us out of the centre of the solar system; we now need to take ourselves out of the centre of the biosphere."52

All things are from the whole, and the whole is from all things.