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Quotes About Interconnectedness

For me the world has always been more of a puppet show. But when one looks behind the curtain and traces the strings upward he finds they terminate in the hands of yet other puppets, themselves with their own strings which trace upward in turn, and so on.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Whether in my book or not, every man is tabernacled in every other and he in exchange and so on in an endless complexity of being and witness to the uttermost edge of the world.
~ Cormac McCarthy
But someplace in the scheme of things this world must touch the other.
~ Cormac McCarthy
cada hombre reside temporalmente en su prójimo y este en aquel y así sucesivamente en una infinita cadena de ser y de testigo hasta los más remotos confines del mundo.
~ Cormac McCarthy
The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.
~ Cory Doctorow
Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both everything and nothing. The signals are everywhere.
~ Craig Clevenger
Everything we do, you see, has its consequences and repercussions, every kind act and every bad one, every friend we make... and every enemy. Everything is connected.
~ Cressida Cowell
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying. Now quietly, subtly, she was unravelling the tangle of his consciousness and hers, breaking the threads gently, one by one, with patience and impatience to get clear.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe
~ D.H. Lawrence
It was as if thousands and thousands of little roots and threads of consciousness in him and her had grown together into a tangled mass, till they could crowd no more, and the plant was dying.
~ D.H. Lawrence
The central law of all organic life is that each organism is intrinsically isolate and single in itself. The moment its isolation breaks down, and there comes an actual mixing and confusion, death sets in.
~ D.H. Lawrence
As overwhelming is caused by you, there is no overwhelming that is separate from you. Thus you go out and meet someone. Someone meets someone. You meet yourself. Going out meets going out.
~ D?gen
Everydayness perfumes the depth of life, the huge ocean where all are interconnected, and makes your life mature. Then a new life arises from the depth and appears on the surface. So, by taking care of everydayness, you don't make just the surface mature; you also make the depth of your life mature.
~ Dainin Katagiri
You are connected with all beings in time, which permeates into every inch of the cosmic universe, and space, where everyone and everything exists together in peace and harmony.
~ Dainin Katagiri
Actualization is not just the manifestation of your individual experience of the truth; it is your life interconnected with a tree's life, a bird's life, water's life, spring's life, autumn's life, and the life of the whole universe.
~ Dainin Katagiri
it is impossible to build one's own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart. MRS. BROWNING.
~ W.E.B. Du Bois
Lack one lacks both, and the unseen is proved by the seen, Till that becomes unseen and receives proof in its turn.
~ Walt Whitman
am integral with you, I too am of one phase and of all phases.
~ Walt Whitman
To me the converging objects of the universe perpetually flow
~ Walt Whitman
Én vagyok az, akinek fáj a szerelmes szerelem; Vonz a föld? Nem fájva vonz-e minden anyag minden anyagot? Az én testem is így van mindennel, ami útjába kerül, vagy amit megismer.
~ Walt Whitman
meaning is never found in relative independence, as in individual words or sentences; rather, it is in a constant state of flux –
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Creo que las distintas religiones son puertas diferentes para una misma casa. A veces creo que la casa existe, y otras veces que no. Ese es el gran misterio.
~ Walter Isaacson
The branches of the leafless tree merge into the man's body, then into the conical geometrical pattern, and finally into the mountainous landscape. What Leonardo probably began as four distinct elements ended up woven together in a way that illustrates a fundamental theme in his art and science: the interconnectedness of nature, the unity of its patterns, and the analogy between the workings of the human body and those of the earth.
~ Walter Isaacson