Quotes About Interconnectedness

El que compta són els lligams; el que fa cambiar les coses són els lligams. Al final, els lligams són l'únic que queda.

It takes two," he said after a moment. "That's why they call it coupling.

We ourselves are part of the nature we seek to describe.

The Secret of a Human Being is Allah. The Secret of Allah is the Human Being.

Like steps of a staircase, and notes on a piano, each part MUST be present for the whole to function properly. Just because one plane vibrates at a lower frequency than another plane, the former is not inferior to the latter. Bass tones vibrate at a lower frequency than treble tones, yet both tones are essential to the total effect of the music.

It is a great mistake to say that the thorn does not have anything to do with the rose, or that the thorn is the absence of the rose. The thorn is as much rose bush as the rose is. The thorn has as much validity as the rose. Let this Rose Bush be the symbol of the Heart of Real Spirituality. We are not asking you to like the thorn, but we are asking you to see it as an expression of Allah.

The notion of separation is a great mistake. To believe yourself separate from Nature Herself is to believe in an enormous fallacy. The Mind & Will of the Universe are your Mind & Will. Know this. Accept is as a given fact.

All is one, but the all is also the many.

I am every wo/man. Every wo/man is me. So each of us partakes of the reality of everyone else.

If you are the lantern, I am the flame; If you are the lake, then I am the rain; If you are the desert, I am the sea; If you are the blossom, I am the bee; If you are the fruit, then I am the core; If you are the rock, then I am the ore; If you are the ballad, I am the word; If you are the sheath, then I am the sword.

Die Welt ist ein einziger unaufhörlicher Querverweis.

When we let go of the self, we are more inspired to work with others; and when we are generous to others, we realize that the self is lost.

Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith.

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa. The difference did not exist.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Eventually everything connects.

Eventually Everything Connects - all the Pain, the Struggle & the People.

The state of interbeing is a vulnerable state. It is the vulnerability of the naive altruist, of the trusting lover, of the unguarded sharer. To enter it, one must leave behind the seeming shelter of a control-based life, protected by walls of cynicism, judgment, and blame.

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

It is the cry of the separate self, 'What about me?' As long as we keep acting from that place, it doesn't matter who wins the war against (what they see as) evil. The world will not deviate from its death-spiral.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.