Quotes About Interconnectedness

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

The world's problems transcend borders.

Trade transcends party lines here in Washington, and it unifies stakeholders across the globe.

As the world transitions to the Internet of Everything - where people, processes, and data are intelligently connected - we'll be linked in even more ways. Here, billions and trillions of sensors around the earth and in its atmosphere will send information back to machines, computers, and people for further evaluation and decision-making.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Every day, I absorb countless data bits through emails, phone calls, and articles; process the data; and transmit back new bits through more emails, phone calls, and articles. I don't really know where I fit into the great scheme of things and how my bits of data connect with the bits produced by billions of other humans and computers.

Alam adalah manusia besar, dan manusia adalah alam kecil.

from the Tibetan Buddhist point of view, we can divide our entire existence into four continuously interlinked realities: (1) life, (2) dying and death, (3) after death, and (4) rebirth. These are known as the four bardos: (1) the natural bardo of this life, (2) the painful bardo of dying, (3) the luminous bardo of dharmata, and (4) the karmic bardo of becoming.

And the great elements such as earth, May I always support the life Of all the boundless creatures. And until they pass away from pain May I also be the source of life For all the realms of varied beings That reach unto the ends of space.8

Remember that you're intimately connected to everyone else in the world, so when you attack another person, you attack yourself.

We humans are all manifestations of one Divine spirit vibrating at different levels of consciousness and frequencies at one time. Like cells in a body, we're all on this planet together, and when one cell attacks another in the body, we call that cancer. Similarly, when we attack one another (or ourselves) through condemnation and judgment, it's no less cancerous and toxic to our entire being—body, mind, and soul.

I felt her heart pounding against her ribs and directly into me. Or maybe it was my heart. Curled against each other like two locked pieces of a puzzle, I could not tell where I ended and she began. There was just this. Us. One shared heart.

Life is life--whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

Death fosters life that life may suckle death.

Life is life — whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

D.: There are six centres in the body and there are corresponding centres in the world. M.: Yes. What is in the world is in the body; and what is in the body is in the world also.

Every city is a living body.

Because everything is interdependent, there are no simple, single causes and effects. Every action creates not just an equal and opposite reaction, but a web of reverberating consequences.

Beauty comes from tension: between order and disorder, simplicity and complexity.

anyone who identifies himself with the fate of another is robbed to some extent of his own freedom.

You are a self and an other. Your 'others' are in part your own creation. This in turn affects and shapes your experiences of self. Your levels of self-awareness and self-acceptance largely shape how you perceive others. p.231

You are a self and an other. • Your 'others' are in part your own creation. • This in turn affects and shapes your experiences of self. • Your levels of self-awareness and self-acceptance largely shape how you perceive others.

different aspects of our complexity are 'drawn out' by different people, and that it is also possible to experience ourselves differently and more positively in a less stressed, more mutually accepting relationship.

You, me---we're not the same, but we---our lives---somehow fit together.