Quotes About Interconnectedness

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke eloquently about this phenomenon. "In a real sense, all of life is interrelated," he said. "All persons are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

As Friedrich Nietzsche said, "Invisible threads are the strongest ties.

Random, and yet rooted in the moment in which he lived, in which his life was bound up with all other lives and particles in the universe.

every particle being connected with every other; you can't fart without changing the balance in the universe. It makes living a funny joke with nobody around to laugh.

We and our environments form such interconnected cluster systems that mutually process information and alter it while exchanging it; we are all (humans) like a vast compound eye which shows a repetition of the motion of a single object but each cell reflecting slightly differently. (p.155)

You and I, when we argue, are made in each other. For when I understand what you understand, I become your understanding, and am made in you, in a certain ineffable way. —Erigena

Every atom of me and every atom of you... we'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and in pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't be able to take just one, they'll have to take two, one for you and one for me.

Nosotros seguimos siendo un solo ser, los dos formamos una sola criatura

Every atom of me, and every atom of you.

Sono le onde a far sì che il mare non sia solo un enorme pozzanghera.

Like light and shadow, love and hate were inseparable. One could not exist without the other.

But any gathering of eight human beings has an astounding potential for complication.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

Now I read the updates on her online profile and she read mine, and that's what we were to each other.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads. Happenstances. I just happened to be one of them.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have space for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world.

the great all-embracing sound that rose from the dazzling earth, a layered music, dense but deeply flowing, that was clippered insects rubbing their legs together, bird-notes, grass-stems chaffing and fretting in the breeze.

Because all living things are connected on vibrational energy levels, our basic emotional state is picked up and reacted to by all life forms around us. It is well known that animals can instantly read a person's basic emotional state. There are experiments demonstrating that even the growth of bacteria is affected by human emotions, and that plants register measurable reactions to our emotional state (Backster, 2003).

the law of sensitive dependence on initial conditions means that a slight variation over time can produce a major change in outcome, "much as a ship whose bearing is one degree off compass will eventually find itself hundreds of miles off course.

To say "I love you," Yanomami Indians of the Amazon say, "Ya pihi irakema," meaning "I have been contaminated by your being"—a part of you has entered me, and it lives and grows.

None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.

La complexité humaine ne se réduit à aucun principe de causalité.