Quotes About Interconnectedness

Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. —MOROCCAN PROVERB

Without Karuil-Ysem, I should be less than I am.

Everything each of us does affects the others. None of us lives in a vacuum. We're simply children on a quest to gain the highest forms of wisdom without being compromised in the process. But when one is compromised, the others are compromised. You see that, don't you?

Humans are a terrestrial species biased toward attributing the forces we see around us to familiar forces on land. But the more we look, the more we learn that everything arises from the sea and everything falls away to the sea, and the deep blue home is home to every one of us, whether we are beings of water, air, rock, ice, or soil.

Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

CIVILIZATION is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else.

We believe that all living things – humans, animals, trees, grasses – are essentially brothers and sisters

The men who come on the stage at one period are all found to be related to each other. Certain ideas are in the air.

nos queríamos en una dialéctica de imán y limadura, de ataque y defensa, de pelota y pared.

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small).

Androgyny is not trying to manage the relationship between the opposites it is simply flowing between them.

A drop that knows itself, knows the Ocean. (p. 80)

Technology never exists on its own, it's part of a wider collection of connections, ways of seeing things." FADE by Kailin Gow.

We must know the whole play in order to properly act our parts; the conception of totality must never be lost in that of the individual.

Let us stop the continents from hurling epigrams at each other, and be sadder if not wiser by the mutual gain of half a hemisphere. We have developed along different lines, but there is no reason why one should not supplement the other. You

the Taoist Absolute was the Relative.

All created things are marked with the seal of the Trinity.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

Stories, Vishnu, are like snarled threads, each connected with the other, and it's very tempting to want to tell them all at once. But time, linear, progressive, maddening time, won't let me.

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Nothing that you make in the world exists in isolation from the social and political and ecological dimensions of it.

Isolationism is over.

Americans easily forget that the air they breathe is the same as those in Europe or Africa or Asia; it's the same air as Jesus breathed. I would like them to remember that connection.

Working with the Jewish community is essential to me and what I stand for.