Quotes About Interconnectedness

To study both people and things is to study the lines they are made of.

You know the teachings, Mother. 'The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

All water has been everywhere, Bekah. What flows from your faucet was once frozen inside a glacier, and squeezed by unimaginable pressures at the bottom of the deepest sea, and rippling in a lightless lake in a cavern no living thing has ever touched. Also, it has almost certainly been inside a dinosaur. All water is one water, and all water remembers the past.

This idea comes to me that we're all grass blades on the same lawn. We've grown up together, shoulder to shoulder, under the same sun, drinking the same rain. But you know what happens to grass blades—somebody cuts them down just when they reach their prime.

When we first draw breath outside the womb, we inhale tiny particles of all that came before, both literally and figuratively. We are never merely individuals; we are never alone; we are always in the company of others, of the past, of history.

Does it surprise you that God presents himself as a model for human community?

Only if we manage to see the universe as a single entity, in which every part reflects the whole and whose great beauty lies precisely in its variety, will we be able to understand exactly who and where we are. Letters agains the war: Letter from Orsigna, 2001.

Dünyan?n çocuklar?n?n neden tinsel bir bilinçle birbirlerine ba?l? olduklar?n? anlad?. Onlar? ba?layan, ortak ba?? yaratan dünyan?n kendisiydi. Ortak felsefe ya da dü?ünce ve safl?k dünyan?n bizzat kendisiydi.

what matters is helping all parties understand that the success of the individual is tied irrevocably to the success of the whole.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

In this industry, there's a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you're often a customer and a vendor in another way. It's not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it's not that atypical in a lot of industries.

It is not oil or the environment, it is oil and the environment. We are living in the same world. We are not enemies.

In a global world, what happens within one country can all too easily affect others.

In our globalized world, what happens in one nation has a very real impact on everybody else.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

If I've got one thing that I really believe about fiction and life, it's that there are no minor characters.

You cannot do only one thing.

We believe that economic globalisation should be more open, inclusive, equitable, and balanced for mutual benefits.

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither

Oh my dear fellow...should you not be askind, 'Would the tea like the cup?

perceived the numbing truth that we human beings are merely as many pieces in a jig-saw puzzle and that our every movement affects the fortunes of some other piece. Just so, faintly at first and taking shape by degrees, must the germ of civic spirit have come to Prehistoric Man. We are all individualists till we wake up.

Nothing ever happens to just one person.