Quotes About Interconnectedness

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.

In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.

We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evolution. We are part of evolution. Unfortunately, we believe that we've been created to dominate the planet, to dominate nature. Ain't true.

There is an underlying unity in all things

When you are loving someone, that someone is loving you, too. That is the universal law. No exception.

All the Creator's children are blessed with gifts. We are all given special skills to assist each other her, including animals, plants and insects.

Giving and receiving are the same process. You are the conduit playing your role.

Love is the thread with which we connect to the world.

Rain does not fall on one tree.

The sea, no matter how endless, depends on rivers.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

We all have the same root, and are connected...To tap into this connectedness we must go within.

Through me, I see you. Through you, I see me.

In reality, we live in everyone. I live in you. You live in me. There is no gap, no distance. We all are eternally one.

The world is alive, and just as we humans draw energy from connection with other human beings, so we do too from this world.

God works through angels, people, nature and animals.

The All is in all, and all is in The All.

It is necessary to note, " says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).

Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

No man is an island, no man stands alone

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

Like the mind-set that places men above women, whites above blacks, and rich above poor, the mentality that places humans above nature is a dysfunctional delusion.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.