Quotes About Interconnectedness

I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.

And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.

Nature is about balance. All the world comes in pairs - Yin and Yang, right and wrong, men and women; whats pleasure without pain?

Majority rule rests on numbers; democracy rests on the well-grounded assumption that society is neither a collection of units nor an organism but a network of human relations.

Saying of the ProphetReflectionThe Faithful are mirrors, one to the other.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.

What would it be like if we dealt with the world around us as a playground, full of children learning and growing? Would this perspective allow us to deal with others in a more compassionate and loving way? (pg. 61)

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish piecemeal.

For ages they had been without lives of their own. The whole of their being was open to the world and nothing divided them from the rest of creation.

Ammonius Saccus (a Greek philosopher, founder of the Neo-platonic school) taught that: "Christianity and Paganism, when rightly understood, differ in no essential points, but had a common origin, and are really one and the same thing." [411:3]

The life of a village in the life of the stars

You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life. . . . It's what they call a vicious circle.

Asia is the unifying one, while the West is the destructive other.

there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life.

There is not one who is Fatherless, nor Motherless in the Universe.

Bien y mal no son sino los polos de la misma cosa

Todo es doble, todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son medias verdades, todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse.

Todo es doble; todo tiene dos polos; todo, su par de opuestos: los semejantes y los antagónicos son lo mismo; los opuestos son idénticos en naturaleza, pero diferentes en grado; los extremos se tocan; todas las verdades son semiverdades; todas las paradojas pueden reconciliarse. EL KYBALIÓN