Quotes About Interconnectedness

we can no longer consider ourselves merely onlookers who have no effect on the world that we're observing.

However, as distinct as they may appear from one another, Bohm suggested that they're linked in a deeper reality in ways that we simply cannot see from our place in creation.

We live in a world where everything is connected. We can not longer think in terms of us and them when it comes to the consequences of the way we live. Today it's all about WE.

Man did not weave the web of life—he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."1

We're "part of a universe that is a work in progress." In this unfinished creation, "we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself—and building itself.

When we look at our lives from the viewpoint that everything is everywhere all the time, the implications are so vast that for many they're hard to grasp.

Both science and mysticism describe a force that connects everything together and gives us the power to influence how matter behaves—and reality itself—simply through the way we perceive the world around us.

even though we may be physically separated from one another, we can still be in instantaneous communication—and

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

Life and 'Mind' are systemic processes.

Perhaps there is no such thing as unilateral power. After all, the man "in power" depends on receiving information all the time from outside. He responds to that information just as much as he "causes" things to happen...it is an interaction, and not a lineal situation.

If your gaze takes in the world, a person's a puny thing. If a person is all you see, the rest falls away and she becomes the world.

In civilized society, we humans are responsible for nurturing and sustaining the force of inter-relational harmony in our lives.

It can be helpful to think of humanity like a pearl necklace. Each human being is a pearl with distinct characteristics, but underneath there is a string that ties us all together, invisible to the naked eye.

Et dans un dernier souffle, je comprends tout : que le temps n'existe pas, que la vie est notre seul bien, qu'il ne faut pas la mépriser, que nous sommes tous liés, et que l'essentiel nous échappera toujours

Yudhishthira taught me that moral integrity begins with the awareness of other human beings. The reality of others looms large in Yudhishthira's consciousness—it is the shining feature of his personality,

Flesh and spirit are not juxtaposed domains, but are principles of activity that give rise to processes that in all their manifestations intermesh in the life of the Christian.

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

The most basic change necessary to our collective survival is underway: the last redefinition of humanity - gradually extending from family to tribe to nation to the human race.

Egy halálosan beteg társadalom húsz körömmel kapaszkodik a tulajdon halálos betegségébe. Ha meggyógyítja, beledöglik.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Matter is a holograph of itself in its own internal radiation." Forces

The Butterfly Effect was no accident; it was necessary.

In science as in life, it is well known that a chain of events can have a point of crisis that could magnify small changes. But chaos meant that such points were everywhere. They were pervasive. In systems like the weather, sensitive dependence on initial conditions was an inescapable consequence of the way small scales intertwined with large.