Quotes About Interconnectedness

The fabric of our complex society is woven too tightly to permit any part of it to be damaged without damaging the whole.

life blooms right through death and they beautify each other

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

Humans have an odd ecology.

Tutto è legato al tutto, dalle miriadi di stelle nell'etere, fino alle miriadi di atomi, che compongono un granello di sabbia sulla spiaggia.

this in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone

I, and thou; our hands meet and a world engendered.

there is no saying how events in one place may affect what happens elsewhere, for the tapestry of history is woven of many threads.

It's funny how things work out, isn't it? I mean, it's like dominoes—you touch one and then the others start to go, and sometimes they fall in the right direction and one person knows another and it all opens up like a flower.

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

But we are not the center of the universe, you and I, neither as individuals nor as the representatives of the whole human race. God's universe must be considered as one great whole composed of interrelated parts, and its majestic purpose is not the gratification of our puny selves.

It has been usual for men to think and to say, Many men are slaves because one is an oppressor; let us hate the oppressor. Now, however, there is amongst an increasing few a tendency to reverse this judgment, and to say, One man is an oppressor because many are slaves; let us despise the slaves. The truth is that oppressor and slave are co-operators in ignorance, and, while seeming to afflict each other, are in reality afflicting themselves.

I call this permission networking. My network is not the list of how many people I know. The strength of my network is how well everyone on the list of people I know, knows each other. Most people don't know this important principle.

All gods bear witness! The Jade Gate and the One-Eyed Monk are truly yin and yang, truly everlasting, truly godlike, both insatiable however much one consumes the other.

to call the study of chaos "nonlinear science" was like calling zoology "the study of non elephant animals.

The lexis is a measure of shared experience, which comes from interconnectedness. The number of users of the language forms only the first part of the equation: jumping in four centuries from 5 million English speakers to a billion.

If someone thinks that education, health, infrastructure all are different sectors and issues and they ought to be fought independently, then they are mistaken. There is an underlying pattern in the process. And that is bad governance.

Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.

We tend to talk about the world in a myriad of ways - a microscopic world of elementary particles, a biological world of organisms and evolution, a social world of morality and meaning. But it's all the same underlying world. That's the underlying theme of 'The Big Picture.'

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

In this age of growing interconnectedness, we understand that turning our backs on the world is simply not an option.

Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks, and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society, we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.