Quotes About Interconnectedness

everything remains inherently connected to everything else.

We're two sides of an infinitesimally thin coin. Slice the coin thinner and thinner, and we get closer and closer to each other. We can slice it arbitrarily thin, let the limit of the thickness approach zero. Slice it until there's no one or nothing in between, until we meet at zero.

We're all one thing, like cells in a body. 'Cept we can't see the body. The way fish can't see the ocean. And so we envy each other. Hurt each other. Hate each other. How silly is that? A heart cell hating a lung cell.

Religion really means to rejoin that which seems to be separate.

What binds Buddhism, Sufism, and Quaker practices together is a belief in our interconnectedness; profound respect for others; being guided by a greater good beyond material possessions, status, and image; valuing silence and stillness of the mind; acceptance of differences; developing inner awareness of one's perceptions and motivation; commitment to service; and seeking guidance from within.

A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life.

What is one boot without the other boot? It is nothing. It is useless, an orphan forevermore, and I could take no mercy on it.

was twenty-two, the same age she was when she'd been pregnant with me. She was going to leave my life at the same moment that I came into hers, I thought.

If you wish to live and thrive, Let the spider run alive.

Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them.

We have failed to grasp the fact that mankind is becoming a single unit, and that for a unit to fight against itself is suicide.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main...

...I am so happy, I feel like a firm, rich, healthy root, Rejoicing in what is to come. How I depend on you utterly... How everything that will be, will not be of me, Nor of either of us, But of both of us.

What makes it so hard to organize the environment sensibly is that everything we touch is hooked up to everything else.

All creations are one with the universe. Look at the world around you. Can you effectively separate yourself from everything else? After seriously pondering this, most of us rapidly conclude that we cannot. To even make the statement that I exist as a unique entity requires comparison with something else. (If you exist as a distinct being, your distinctiveness is in comparison to other creations. No other creations, no individual you.)

Negative thoughts are the manifestation of a belief system in which we believe we are separate from each other and from God

Separation is an illusion, we are all in this together

The whole world is your own Self. So who is good and who is bad?

Technology has changed the environment of humans and the ecology of Earth. It has

we begin to see that we are spiritually linked with people halfway around the world, and with those who lived hundreds, even thousands of years ago. We begin to see that we emerge from, and are the expressions of, a single consciousness that is limited by neither time nor space.

les fins de l'homme sont domiciliées dans la nature.

The heart of this relationship is that there is one universal presence (????????) of the cause of all that is, secretly and unrecognizably binding all things together, yet dwelling in each being in a different way; this presence holds the individual parts of the whole together, in itself and in each other, unconfused and inseparable, and allows them, through this very relationship of creative unity, to live more for each other than for themselves.81

Boundaries have to be continuously sealed off, but it's a hopeless job, for everything touches everything else in this world. A beginning never disappears, not even with an ending.