Quotes About Interconnectedness

Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

I know—I know more than anyone—how deeply we are all connected—across time, across space, in ways that we can't yet comprehend!

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

As Sri Krishna says, And when he sees me in all and sees all in me, then I never leave him and he never leaves me. And he, who in this oneness of love loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth, he lives in me...

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on y6our shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you

Maldevelopment is the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected and interdependent systems, that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, injustice and violence. It is blind to the fact that a recognition of nature's harmony and action to maintain it are preconditions for distributive justice.

I feel like I gather up other people's energy. Not on purpose but my eyes are open to everything. We are all part of the same phantom fabric anyway.

But this is so no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.

inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.

People's live were entirely their own, perhaps--and more justifiably,--when the world seemed enormous, and all its comings and goings were slow and deliberate. But this is no longer, and never will be again, since man's inventions have eliminated so much of distance and time; for better, for worse, we are now each of us part of the surge and swell of great economic and political movements, and whatever we do, as individuals or as nations, deeply affects everyone else.

Love is made up of three unconditional properties in equal measure: 1. Acceptance 2. Understanding 3. Appreciation Remove any one of the three and the triangle falls apart. Which, by the way, is something highly inadvisable. Think about it — do you really want to live in a world of only two dimensions? So, for the love of a triangle, please keep love whole.

As civilized and advanced as we may have become, we still depend on breathable air, potable water, and fertile soil for our daily existence.

Everything in the community of life gives back 100 percent - except the humans.

You never depend only on yourself, you never live only for yourself, and you have to realize that our most intimate thought, that we most own, is bound by a thousand bonds to that of the world. And he who speaks, he who writes is essentially someone speaking for all those who are voiceless.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.

There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

The raw fact is that every successful example of economic development this past century ... has taken place via globalization.

We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.

The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

THE SECOND MARK of existence is egolessness, sometimes called no-self. These words can be misleading. They don't mean that we disappear—or that we erase our personality. Egolessness means that the fixed idea that we have about ourselves as solid and separate from each other is painfully limiting. That we take ourselves so seriously, that we are so absurdly important in our own minds, is a problem. Self-importance is like a prison for

Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.