Quotes About Interconnectedness

Love is public,... or it's not love. Love is shared with others or it dies.

The applications of knowledge, especially mathematics, reveal the unity of all knowledge. In a new situation almost anything and everything you ever learned might be applicable, and the artificial divisions seem to vanish.

Everything is connected, even the parts we don't like, especially the parts we don't like.

Water and stone Flesh and bone Night and morn Rose and thorn Tree and wind Heart and mind

Meanwhile, the great ash would rest where she lay, and mosses would creep over her trunk, and tiny creatures make their homes her dim hollows. Even in death she was a link in the great chain of the forest's being.

The threads of many beliefs can run side by side; from time to time they tangle, and mesh into a stronger rope.

And then I understood that the answer is yes, yes yes: I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.

All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.

The river that flows in you also flows in me.

We have a duty to get to know one another, and to cultivate a concern and responsibility for all our neighbors in the global village.

if we harm our neighbors, we also inflict damage on ourselves. There

We should also make ourselves aware that our cultural, ethical, religious, and intellectual traditions have all been profoundly affected by other peoples'.

the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

We do not obtain knowledge by standing outside of the world; we know because we are of the world. We are part of the world in its differential becoming

Furthermore, I argue that ethics is not simply about responsible actions in relation to human experiences of the world; rather, it is a question of material entanglements and how each intra-action matters in the reconfiguring of these entanglements, that is, it is a matter of the ethical call that is embodied in the very worlding of the world.

Ethics is not a geometrical calculation; others are never very far from us; they and we are co-constituted and entangled through the very cuts we help to enact. Cuts cut things together and apart. Cuts are not enacted from the outside, nor are they ever enacted once and for all.

What if we were to acknowledge that the nature of materiality itself, not merely the materiality of human embodiment, always already entails "an exposure to the Other"?

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.' " "The Golden Rule," Charlie said. "Do unto others as they do unto you.

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

He was part of the infinite. The tree and the rock and the water. The rising of the sun and the running of the deer.

Boxes within boxes, dolls within dolls, worlds within worlds. Everything was connected. Everything in the whole world.

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave him birth, will respond.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.