Quotes About Interconnectedness

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.

IN the natural world Sacrifice is meaningless, As all things come and go From the One.

I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.

If one being or thing, however apparently useless, were missing in this universe of endless variety, it would be as it were a note missing in a song.

Our ego is the lion of lions, and if this is conquered, then these external lions – the different egos around us – are conquered also, and wherever we go, with anyone, whether foolish or wise, good or bad, we now have peace.

Life is revealing. It is not only human beings who speak; if only the ears can hear even plants and trees and all nature speak, in the sense that nature reveals itself, reveals its secret. In this way we communicate with the whole of life. Then we are never alone, then life becomes worth living.

We'll never escape the limits of the ecosystem. We are caught in the food chain, whether we like it or not, eating and being eaten.

Small towns are sometimes like that; familiarity runs high, while regard for personal space is low, if nonexistent.

Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.

Life and death go hand in glove.

Was it always other creatures that had to pay for man's follies with their lives?

When one registers the fact that our very own survival depends upon the wellbeing of all life on our planet, one starts to understand that we are the ones responsible for the state we find Earth in today.

until we allow not only elephants, but all living creatures their place in the sun, we can never be whole ourselves.

But we must not think that just because we have words for all the parts of a tree, a tree really has all those parts. The leaf does not know, for instance, when it stops being a leaf and becomes a twig. And the trunk is not aware that it has stopped being a trunk and has become the roots. Indeed, the roots do not know when they stop being roots and become soil, nor the soil the moisture, nor the moisture the atmosphere, nor the atmosphere the sunlight." (pp 54-55)

We participate in a perpetual organic conversation with our universe.

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

The little and the great are joined in one By God's great force. The wondrous golden sun Is linked unto the glow-worm's tiny spark; The eagle soars to heaven in his flight; And in those realms of space, all bathed in light, Soar none except the eagle and the lark.

It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness ... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself ... both and one. A shadow on snow.

Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.

his species could end, a victim of people who valued themselves above other creatures of nature. We

A community is a butcher and a doctor, a minister, a town troublemaker. A "community" is not a bunch of people united by some grievance. That's just self-righteousness -- incredibly dangerous and antidemocratic.

Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

The only thing I know now is that we're all connected, everyone of us, even people we don't know.