Quotes About Interconnectedness

There he realized the oneness of the universe and man, that man is a universe in miniature.

It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain.

Whatever we see, or feel, or do, whatever action there is anywhere in the universe, while being the effect of past work on the one hand, becomes, on the other, a cause in its turn, and produces its own effect.

Hinduism cannot live without Buddhism, nor Buddhism without Hinduism. Then realise what the separation has shown to us, that the Buddhists cannot stand without the brain and philosophy of the Brahmins, nor the Brahmin without the heart of the Buddhist.

Fear comes from the selfish idea of cutting one's self off from the Universe.

In the ocean we cannot raise a wave without causing a hollow somewhere else.

Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea.

Even if you never have the chance to see or touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take, every drop of water you drink, every bite you consume. Everyone, everywhere is inextricably connected to and utterly dependent upon the existence of the sea. Early

What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.

Two live as oneOne live as twoTwo live as threeUnder the bamUnder the booUnder the bamboo tree.

You're saying that our souls and the stars and the wings of a butterfly are all somehow connected?

Everything is connected to everything else.

Whatever is below is like that which is above, and whatever is above is like that which is below, to accomplish the miracles of one thing.

Actually, from the Buddhist context all words—and all beings—are verbs, in dynamic activity.

Everything in the universe is connected Everything is osmosis You cannot separate any part from the whole Interdependence rules the cosmic order.

From time to time we complain about all kinds of things about other people, and we feel that we are being deceived. My father told us that these others are not living outside ourselves.

We must experience ourselves as creative, loving, and profoundly connected to each other and to the rest of creation.

Are not all loves secretly the same? A hundred flowers sprung from a single root.

When we see our lives as only a small part of a greater web, our perspective changes dramatically.

The "one I love" was everywhere, including within me.

I tried to comfort him by explaining that when we really spend time with any living beings—as he had with the ants—we find out that they are real. They are changing, animated, hungry, social. Like us, their life is fragile and they want to stay alive. His playmates hadn't had the chance to get to know ants in the way he did, I told him. If they had, they wouldn't want to injure them either.

Strange how for the last five hundred years the fate of The Jews had so often been tied to our own (Muslims') future. Where we suffer, they suffer. Where we prosper, they prosper. Where they are present and we are not, they fail to defend themselves and are slaughtered like sheep.It is the same story here, in al-Abdalus and in al-Quds,Baghdad, Cairo and Damascus. (A Sultan In Palermo, Islam Quintet 4, Tariq Ali, page 221, 222)

Conditioned existence refers to the pervasive way our lives, including our body and our thoughts, arise in dependence on contaminated past actions.

Every animal is a gateway to the phenomenal world of the human spirit. What most fail to realize is that what they think of animals reflects the way they think of themselves.