Quotes About Interconnectedness

By simply attending to how we feel without trying to judge or change our feelings, we may notice that there's no real distinction between self and other. If it's a grey day inside, … it's a grey day outside as well.

How selfish soever man may be supposed," Smith wrote, "there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

How selfish soever man may be supposed," Smith wrote, "there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it." There

An innovation, or cluster of innovations, in one field ends up triggering changes that seem to belong to a different domain altogether.

Innovations usually begin life with an attempt to solve a specific problem, but once they get into circulation, they end up triggering other changes that would have been extremely difficult to predict. This is a pattern of change that appears constantly in evolutionary history.

Build a tangled bank.

The common denominator in all these problems is that the world is not a line of dominoes in which each event causes exactly one event and is caused by exactly one event. The world is a tissue of causes and effects that criss and cross in tangled patterns. The embarrassments for Hume's two theories of causation (conjunction and counterfactuals) can be diagrammed as a family of networks in which the lines fan in or out or loop around, as in the diagram on the following page.

After all, other mammals fight to stay alive, appear to experience pleasure, and undergo pain, fear, and stress when their well-being is compromised. The great apes also share our higher pleasures of curiosity and love of kin, and our deeper aches of boredom, loneliness, and grief. Why should those interests be respected for our species but not for others?

It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others.

Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

Corporations can have no soul but they can love each other.

Love is a chain of love as nature is a chain of life.

We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection between things.

There is an energy field between humans. And, when we reach out in passion, it is met with an answering passion and changes the relationship forever.

Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation.

All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do?

People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

I love everybody and they, in turn, love everybody, and that's spreading love heart to heart to heart. That's my approach of my work.

The web of life, love, suffering and death unites all beings.

I love you all. I am you and you are me!

It is Love that holds everything together, and it is the everything also.

I love to think that animals and humans and plants and fishes and trees and stars and the moon are all connected.

Spirituality is not about becoming special. It is about becoming one with everything.

Love is the fundamental relatedness in the universe.