Quotes About Interconnectedness

Whoever injures another injures himself because he decreases the opportunities for gain that come through co-operation and exchange.

Do they function as collections of Human Resources or as communities of human beings?

Pestsov maintained that art is one, and that it can attai its highest mainfestation only in conjunction with all kinds of art.

The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry

Kind people help each other even without noticing that they are doing so, and evil people act against each other on purpose. —CHINESE PROVERB

there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another. The

Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

We may not be able to damage the sun directly but humans can cause chaos and through that threaten maat on earth. What happens on one level of creation will impact on the others." - Sekhmet & Bastet: The Feline Powers of Egypt

The Animal is in the World Like Water in Water

We are all creatures of the stars and their forces, they make us, we make them, we are part of a dance from which we by no means and not ever may consider ourselves separate.

Universality and particularity do not contradict one another but require one another. How

the various currents are not isolated entities.

Big whirls have little whirls, That feed on their velocity; And little whirls have lesser whirls, And so on to viscosity.

Circular giving differs from reciprocal giving in several ways. First, when the gift moves in a circle no one ever receives it from the same person he gives it to. I

that all pretensions to being self-made hide the reciprocal truth, that we have unpayable debts to the world around us, to our community, to our forebears, to the ancients, to nature, to the gods.

Generosity is woven into the fabric of all existence. All living things give and receive all the time. The very act of breathing is a kind of giving and receiving.

Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today.

Globalization is going to bring us closer and closer together across nations and technology you can't stop.

Each one of us fulfills a piece of a larger puzzle.

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.

Economic and financial crisis are getting much more usual, and they are not confined to a given country but they immediately spread all over the world, and you have to be prepared for that.

We are evolutionary descendents of this marvellous panoply of life. And what that says unequivocally is we have an utter total obligation to make sure we have an environment that not only is good for us but is good for all living organisms.