Quotes About Interconnectedness

In the brain's world, better to have a negative bond than the existential death of no bond at all. And

For trees, stories never end, they simply fold one into another. Where one begins to close, another begins to open, so that none are ever finished, not really.

You could cut off my hand, and I would still live. You could take out my eyes, and I would still live. Cut off my ears, my nose, cut off my legs, and I could still live. But take away the air, and I die. Take away the sun, and I die. Take away the plants and the animals, and I die. So why would I think my body is more a part of me than the sun and the earth?

There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were few. Animals, and animal presence over us and around us. Over every horizon, animals. Their skins clothing our skins, their fats in our lamps, their bladders to carry water, meat when we could get it.

The dead did not call to me from the underworlds, but spoke to me from the rustling pine needles. They did not gaze down upon me from the skyworlds, but smiled up at me from a bead of dew trembling precariously upon a blade of grass. They told me I have never been alone. Not for one instant. Every soul is a thread in the fabric of the world. All I must do to see my relatives is gaze into the shining water that sleeps

When we are in a true Reiki space, species differences melt away and profound interspecies connections are forged.

Because she was connected to you. Because even despite her absence, she existed and you existed. You are a fact in each other's lives in the same way that the sea exists even if you never go to the seaside.

No matter how big and strong you are, other people can help you if you let them.

Everything you have contact with will be woven into your garden

No game is an island.

People used to say there were only six degrees of separation between anyone in the world. A 2011 study of 720 million Facebook users determined the true magic number to be 4.74. LinkedIn's system is built on three degrees of separation. Whichever way you slice it, we're all only a couple of mouse clicks away.

What has become clear is that we're not just connected to others. We are the very product of the people and networks to which we are connected.

I am not a beginning. I am not an end. I am a link in a chain.

If you say 'we're in this together,' I'm going to hurl.

Liberty clutched him tightly. 'You played a part in my destiny. And maybe I played a part in yours.' That was how things worked, she was beginning to realize. Destiny wasn't something you accomplished by yourself.

If we were to look closely at an individual human being, we would immediately notice that it is a unique hologram unto itself; self-contained, self generating, and self-knowledgeable. Yet if we were to remove this being from its planetary context, we would quickly realize that the human form is not unlike a mandala or symbolic poem, for within its form and flow lives comprehensive information about various physical, social, psychological, and evolutionary contexts within which it was created.

A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.

As humanity becomes more numerous and interwoven, living respectfully with diversity is not just an ethical choice, it is a practical imperative. There

Any who live, stand alone in one place, together.

We are part of the natural environment; we grow out of it in the same way that a wave emerges from the ocean or a tree grows in the forest.

Compassion is not a matter of charity, pity, or sympathy. It is a result of seeing the interconnectedness of all things and recognizing that this is a participatory universe in which we are all one.

A]ll beings in the universe are interdependent. Thus, the love of God means the love of All There Is. The one who loves God is the one who adopts a loving attitude to all things in life, for all are intimately connected and do not exist apart from one another. Therefore, the second greatest commandment is simply a derivative of the first one. Our love for others is due to our recognition that each one of them is also an integral part of God, inseparable from Ultimate Reality.

Well, if you don't like the idea of one world, how many worlds do you want, and how would you like them divided? By race? By religion? By income? Unless you have a spare planet in your pocket, one world is all we have.

The Earth is your Mother and Grandmother. When you walk on the Earth, you are making a prayer to her.