Quotes About Interconnectedness

The Buddha taught that this is like this, because that is like that. You see? Because you smile, I am happy. This is like this, therefore that is like that.

Everything is empty. Empty of what? Empty of a separate self. A flower is full of everything in the cosmos—sunshine, clouds, air, and space. It is empty of only one thing, a separate existence.

Once, as I was about to step on a dry leaf, I saw the leaf in the ultimate dimension of reality. I saw that it was not really dead, but it was merging with the moist soil and preparing to appear on the tree the following spring. I smiled at the leaf and said, "You are pretending.

We might summarize our present human situation by the simple statement: that in the 20th century, the glory of the human has become the desolation of the Earth and now the desolation of the Earth is becoming the destiny of the human. From here on, the primary judgment of all human institutions, professions, programs and activities will be determined by the extent to which they inhibit, ignore, or foster a mutually-enhancing human/Earth relationship.

The universe is the primary revelation of the divine, the primary scripture, the primary locus of divine-human communication.

A degraded habitat will produce degraded humans. If there is to be any true progress, then the entire life community must progress.

The Earth is so integral in the unity of its functioning that every aspect of the Earth is affected by what happens to any component member of the community. Because of its organic quality, Earth cannot survive in fragments….The integral functioning of the planet must be preserved.

We must say of the universe that it is a communion of subjects, not a collection of objects. 

realize that the universe is a communion of subjects rather than a collection of objects.

Here it is: there's only one story. There, I said it and I can't very well take it back. There is only one story. Ever. One. It's always been going on and it's everywhere around us and every story you've ever read or heard or watched is part of it.

But the point is this: stories grow out of other stories, poems out of other poems. And they don't have to stick to genre. Poems can learn from plays, songs from novels.

All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics...

Cry about one thing in life, cry about all; one thread runs through the whole piece.

LCSH terms that are "orphans" in terms of their individual coverage are seldom orphans in terms of their relationships.

N-are nici un fel de sens ca asasinul s? supravieÈ›uiasc? victimei. Ei sunt È™i vor r?mâne p?rtaÈ™i la o taina care-i leag? È™i-i va lega pe vecie, aÈ™a cum dou? fiinÈ›e nu o fac decât într-o alt? împrejurare unic? È™i asem?n?toare, una supunându-se, cealalt? acÈ›ionând. Destinele lor sunt de nedesp?rÈ›it.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone we find it with another.

the need to develop a mutually enhancing mode of human presence to the natural world will be a central concern in every phase of human activity.

What every man looks for in life is his own salvation and the salvation of the men he lives with. By salvation I mean first of all the full discovery of who he himself really is. Then I mean something of the fulfillment of his own God-given powers, in the love of others and of God. I mean also the discovery that he cannot find himself in himself alone, but that he must find himself in and through others.

being loved disinterestedly reminds us that we all need love from others, and depend upon the charity of others to carry on our own lives. And we refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation.

Tao is obscured when men understand only one of a pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. (p. 42)

God does not give us graces or talents or virtues for ourselves alone. We are members one of another and everything that is given to one member is given for the whole body. I do not wash my feet to make them more beautiful than my face.

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

The human mind is woven into the energy fabric of the universe. John A. Wheeler

I am connected to everyone and everything.