Quotes About Interconnectedness

Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. But this is not natural. Each keeps its own place.

How am I placing myself in the world of other people around me? For me, I feel that I am not really alone, that others can feel it too. I see art in this way.

But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

You are my other self

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

Each person you interact with, is an entire universe unto themselves, a Divine Being, unspeakabley precious.

If we are going to live in a society, there has to be an attitude where people really do care for others.

Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.

and all the people who were

There's no such thing as a problem that's yours and not mine.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken.

The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard.

The work of man is done behind the back of the natural world. When nature notices, and can muster the energy, it wipes the slate clean again.

no one can do an injury to you without doing an injury to themselves.

The essential feature in quantum interconnectedness is that the whole universe is enfolded in everything, and that each thing is enfolded in the whole.

So the relationship of each moment in the whole to all the others is implied by its total content: the way in which it 'holds' all the others enfolded within it.

both observer and observed are merging and interpenetrating aspects of one whole reality, which is indivisible and unanalysable.

science itself is demanding a new, non-fragmentary world view

Buddhist philosophy, notion of mutually dependent origination, everything originates together, mutually dependent. it is close to implicate order, which says that everything comes out of a good and everything is interrelated, and that underlying it there is no substance that can be defined. that also give rise to karma, but karma too becomes changeable since even our own state of mind is part of the whole, and when it changes, the whole changes, so the karma changes.

Division is thus seen to be a convenient means of giving a more articulated and detailed description to this whole, rather than a fragmentation of what is.

But there is one more reason to protect other species. One seldom if ever mentioned. Perhaps we are the first to talk and think and build and aspire, but we may not be the last. Others may follow us in this adventure. Some day we may be judged by just how well we served, when alone we were Earth's caretakers.

Growing up among cultural differences is already, or soon will be, the rule rather than the exception—even for those who never physically leave their home country.