Quotes About Interconnectedness

To embrace all things means also that one rids oneself of any concept of separation; male and female, self and other, life and death.

People clustered in twos or threes or fours, I have come to believe, both constitute creatures in and of themselves and, together as tandems or triunes or packs, form another sort of myriad-minded creature whose actions are far from predictable.

Organisms are themselves expressions of … emergent order and agents of higher levels of emergence.

Il nous faut partir d'une conception d'ensemble de l'organisme en tant qu'une entité fondamentale de la biologie, puis comprendre comment celui-ci se divise en parties qui respectent son ordre intrinsèque - pour donner un organisme harmonieusement intégré en dépit de sa complexité.

If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope. We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other.

Todo debe estar equilibrado. La naturaleza está equilibrada. Los animales viven en armonía. Los humanos no han aprendido a hacerlo.

I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.

Complexity yields resilience.

There's lots of kinds of chains...You can't see most of them, the ones that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak...That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

Connectedness regulates and rewards us.

Connectedness counters the pull of addictive behaviors. It is the key.

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Connectedness has the power to counterbalance adversity.

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 reminds us of the following: (1) that we are all connected; (2) that we all leave an imprint; and (3) that the Earth that sustains us is finite.

As the water manifests the brightness of the moon, the moon manifests the clarity of the water.

When everything is connected to everything else, for better or worse, everything matters.

Because we all use the same products, technologies, protocols, and standards, we either make it easier for everyone to spy on everyone, or harder for anyone to spy on anyone.

Koji pulled Ruben onto the next cog. Together, they became part of the space between things.

Together, they became part of the space between things.

Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?

Thousands of candles can be hit by a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decrease by being short

That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp

Often ill comes from the good, as good from ill.