Quotes About Interconnectedness

You tap in to this oneness and become part of the universe as a whole.

The basic idea is that all things in the universe are intertwined.

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

Your attitudes towards others affect what you think about yourself.

The trinitarian circle of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is therefore an open, not a closed, circle.

every creature

September 11 made plain how the security of ordinary Afghans was connected to the security of ordinary Americans and Europeans.

Consciousness doesn't emerge from matter because it has always been in matter. Consciousness is a fundamental quality that exists everywhere and in everything.

We are in this stew together. We are caught in the same traps. With a small twist of fate, I could be sitting across from you, and you could be sitting across from me—both of us in opposite roles. Your problems are a special opportunity for you to learn and for me to learn. We are not cut from different cloths, but rather from the same cloth.

Creator and Creation are singular—that Source or God is all; the dark and the light, male and female, creation and destruction, death and resurrection. In that sense, there is nothing that exists or occurs that is not Source.

The world is such a small place.

The world is becoming smaller every day.

Somos lo que comemos» es una obviedad difícil de discutir y, sin embargo, como sugiere una simple visita a un cebadero, resulta incompleta, porque también somos lo que come lo que comemos. Y lo que somos, o aquello en lo que nos hemos convertido, no es solo carne, sino también maíz n.º 2 y petróleo.

What would happen if we looked at the world beyond the garden this way, regarded our place in nature from the same upside-down perspective?

human desires that link their destinies to our own.

YOU ARE WHAT WHAT YOU EAT EATS TOO.

Plants and mushrooms have intelligence, and they want us to take care of the environment, and so they communicate that to us in a way we can understand." Why us? "We humans are the most populous bipedal organisms walking around, so some plants and fungi are especially interested in enlisting our support. I think they have a consciousness and are constantly trying to direct our evolution by speaking out to us biochemically. We just need to be better listeners.

the biological, the psychological, the philosophical, or the spiritual—has yet earned the right to claim it has the final word. It may be that by layering these different perspectives one upon the other, we can gain the richest picture

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.

Door het ruimtelijk van elkaar gescheiden zijn werd onze innerlijke verbondenheid rijker.

The frontiers of a book are never clear-cut: beyond the title, the first lines, and the last full-stop, beyond its internal configuration and its autonomous form, it is caught up in a system of references to other books, other texts, other sentences: it is a node within a network.

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I guess I'm just stuck on the idea that there's this monumental machine, and we're all part of it. Most of the time, we don't even stop to think about how it works. We just go about our business, doing our part, trusting that everyone else will do their part, and the machine will keep functioning. But all it takes is for someone to come along who isn't thinking straight, some who's not paying attention, or worse, hell-bent on self-destruction and everything turns to shit.

Wherever I go, whomever I meet, I see myself in their eyes, because I am a part of everything, because I love.