Quotes About Interconnectedness

The world will not fail if Pakistan fails, but the world will be healthier if Pakistan is healthy.

The way you think, feel, and act toward others returns at last upon yourself.

In early 2013, I came across a speech by Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer and educator Leanne Simpson, in which she describes her people's teachings and governance structures like this: "Our systems are designed to promote more life.

We have been trained to see our issues in silos; they never belonged there.

Anything you do to and for another person, you do it to and for yourself

No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.

Those fibers join a man to his surroundings;

there was no need to injure the shrubs, since we had already injured the quail.

El mundo es simplemente un espejo de quienes lo formamos y no es ni más ni menos que lo que hacemos de él entre todos.

Als guter Affe ist der Mensch ein soziales Wesen, und als wesentliche Norm ethischen Verhaltens zeichnen ihn Vetternwirtschaft, Nepotismus, Schwindel und Klatsch aus.

We do indeed weave our spirit to the events and relationships of our lives. Life is as simple as that.

Only when we see ourselves in our true human context, as members of a race which is intended to be one organism and "one body," will we begin to understand the positive importance not only of the successes but of the failures and accidents in our lives.

We are so deluded. We are in control of nothing whatsoever; not the weather, not the government, not the stock market, not traffic, barely our health and relationships, not the millions of decisions being made by people all over the world every second—all of which influence our lives in both unseen and all-too-apparent ways. We

They are the we of me.

Métis themes tend to come in strands that are closely woven together. In some aspects, it is difficult and inappropriate to separate these threads. (p.33)

Within every bad thing I see good, and, likewise, within every good thing I see bad, however impossible it is to understand it or see it at the time. As humans we are the epitome of life; in life there is always balance. Life and death,male and female, good and bad, beautiful and ugly, win and lose, love and hate. Lost and found.

And nice is okay when it's among other things, but never when it stands alone.

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening — big or small — can affect an entire string of people. Occurences can join us all together.

Everything comes at a cost to others, most of the time at a cost to ourselves.

When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line.

There is never an end to our work. It is not given to us to complete it. Who completes his work? That is the way of the world, Asher. Only the Master of the Universe completed His work. And it is said that even the Master of the Universe needs humankind in order truly to complete the Creation. Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone. An artist, a Rebbe, everyone.

Life connects us, Benjamin, not artifice.

Without man, what is God? And without God, what is man? Everyone needs the help of someone to complete the work of Creation that is never truly completed. Everyone.

Hawaiians are mellow people, but we all live on an island so we see each other all the time. So like you either got to be real nice, because once you have a problem with somebody, you're gonna see them over and over and over, and you're gonna end up fighting. That's why we fight. We're all stuck in one area. You can't get away.