Quotes About Interconnectedness

All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency.

The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

I can't see the forest through the trees, except the trees are people.

Everything which helps us to exist is holy! And a tree is holiest of the holy for us!

You may consider yourself an individual, but as a cell biologist, I can tell you that you are in truth a cooperative community of approximately fifty trillion single-celled citizens.

This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. —HENRY DAVID THOREAU, WALDEN

Computers brought philosophy into everyday life.

Men! What do any of you ever do without us?" "Live in hovels?

We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions upon trillions of living things have prepared the way for us and then have died — in a sense, for us. We die, in turn, so that others may live. The tragedy of a single individual becomes, in the balance of natural things, the triumph of ongoing life.

she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

This is expansion: to stand as One with all.

Right here" is the reality of interdependent origination, the reality in which everything, including human beings, exists within the vast network of causes and conditions.

If we open the hand of thought that grasps "this person" (that is, our self) as the center of the world, then our lives broaden and our hearts open to all beings. This is the basic teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.

Man patterns the Earth, the Earth patterns the Heavens, the Heavens pattern the Dao, the pattern of the Dao is natural.

Each existence depends on something else... there are no separate individual existences. There are just many names for one existence.

When everything exists within your big mind, all dualistic relationships drop away. There is no distinction between heaven and earth, man and woman, teacher and disciple. Sometimes a man bows to a woman; sometimes a woman bows to a man. Sometimes the disciple bows to the master; sometimes the master bows to the disciple... In your big mind, everything has the same value.

When we inhale, the air comes into the inner world. When we exhale, the air goes out to the outer world. The inner world is limitless, and the outer world is also limitless. We say "inner world" or "outer world" but actually, There is just one whole world.

We have been taught that there is no gap between nighttime and daytime, no gap between you and I. This means oneness. But we do not emphasize even oneness. If it is one, there is no need to emphasize one. Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind (pp. 108-109). Shambhala. Kindle Edition.

When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh, and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they have become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two, and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one.

We say "inner world" or "outer world," but actually there is just one whole world.

When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything.

You and I are just swinging doors.

Remember, everything that we wish for and whatever we are asking for ourselves to the Lord, it reaches us through a living man, therefore be careful how you treat others.