Quotes About Interconnectedness

When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

Such a commune of flesh and

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. —Carl Gustav Jung PART 1 RUSTLING WILLOWS Incredible coincidences without apparent cause are called synchronicities.

Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on. Everything. We borrow the sun that shines on us today from the people on the other side of the world while they borrow the moon from us. Then we give it back. We can't keep the sun, no matter how afraid we are of the dark.

It's all connected you know

If you are setting out to be joyful you are not going to end up being joyful. You're going to find yourself turned in on yourself. It's like a flower. You open, you blossom, really because of other people. And I think some suffering, maybe even intense suffering, is a necessary ingredient for life, certainly for developing compassion.

You show your humanity by how you see yourself not as apart from others but from your connection to others.

We are wired to be caring for the other and generous to one another. We shrivel when we are not able to interact. I mean that is part of the reason why solitary confinement is such a horrendous punishment. We depend on the other in order for us to be fully who we are. (...) The concept of Ubuntu says: A person is a person through other persons.

My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.

It is true that when we harm others, we harm ourselves; but it is just as true that when we help others, we also help ourselves.

as we say in our African idiom, a person is a person through other persons. To dehumanize another inexorably means that one is dehumanized as well.

No man owns his own life," he said. "Part of you is always in someone else's hands.

I see business as an ecosystem.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Just as you can feel connected to your line of human mothers through your belly button, you can feel an ultimate connection to the Earth mother on whom all of our lives depend.

When you make choices, please remember: what is good for you but not good for others won't be good for you either, eventually; what's good for you and others but not good for the Earth won't be good for you or others either, eventually; what's good for you, others, and the Earth will be good for all.

How would I feel if.... and just feel. Feel how other people feel, how the oceans, forests, and animals feel how the Earth feels.

Then we feel the divine nature dwelling in everything, and encounter the One in everything.

Our bodies live separately from each other, but we are deeply connected with each other, through our belly buttons, to the Source of life.

They exist both as particles and as one great unbroken whole,because there`s no distinction between parts and the whole in Nothing.

The source of human life is nature. When nature gets sick, humans cannot avoid getting sick, too.

Ivan and I: the world converging. Malina and I, since we are one: the world diverging.

From something like this came the axiom: "as above, so below.

Our problem is that we think we are isolated and immune from the interlinked ebbs and flows, when in fact our lives are the stuff of these currents and eddies. Our