Quotes About Interconnectedness

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

Every individual," wrote another enormously perceptive portrayer of ordinary life, Harriet Beecher Stowe, "is part and parcel of a great picture of the society in which he lives and acts, and his life cannot be painted without reproducing the picture of the world he lived in.

Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

'One by Two' is a film about two people who live in the same city and do certain things that affect each other's lives. Yet, they are strangers. It's difficult to put the film in any particular genre or box.

I'm not the type of guy who tries to do everything by myself.

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us.

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet.

The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.

Regarding war and peace—the seeds of each are planted in the other.

We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.

Realize that everything connects to everything else.

I Have Learned so much from God That I can no longer call myself A Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, A Buddhist, a Jew.

Love is how it feels to recognize our essential unity. Awakening to oneness is the experience of Big Love. Knowing you are one with all, you find yourself in love with all.

Wisdom is the intelligence of the system as a whole.

What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

Wisdom says we are nothing. Love says we are everything. Between these two our life flows.

When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is, and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously.

We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition.

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

One hand I extend into myself, the other toward others.

In hurting anyone, you hurt yourself, in loving anyone, you love yourself.