Quotes About Interconnectedness

we are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars.

No one species shall make the life of the world its own.' … That's one expression of the law. Here's another: 'The world was not made for any one species.

From out of all the many particulars comes oneness, and out of oneness come all the many particulars.

All the big problems of the world today are routed in the philosophy of separateness and dualism.

Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Philosophy, for me, is a way of relearning to look at the world, a world that is familiar to us, that we know, that is shared by all human beings and also by nonhuman beings.

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

Everything aids everything, because all things are a reflection of the Buddha mind, of the mind of Enlightenment.

In Tantric Buddhism, we believe that Samsara is Nirvana. That is to say that everything in the universe is part of us. And we also are part of everything in the universe.

Love yourself so much that you can never harm yourself. Remember, you can never harm others without harming yourself.

We are all one.

If someone hurts you, he is hurting himself. He may not be able to escape that hurt in his lifetime.

As an atom, so is the universe. As is a drop of water, so is an ocean.

The universe is a mirror—if you smile at her, she smiles at you with joy.

We must be undone in order to do ourselves: we must be part of a larger social fabric of existence in order to create who we are.

Our beliefs affect our behavior towards others. And that makes ourbeliefs, not just a personal question, but an ethical one.

Every human being is a reflection of this universe.

You can love everyone, but you can never hurt anyone else without hurting yourself. You will burn yourself for the rest of your life with this fire and agony.

I am part of you and you are part of me. We are one even though we have separate bodies.

Yin and yang are the left and right hands of the Infinite — creator, destroyer, and reproducer of everything that exists.

We are only fully human when we act as if the life beyond us matters.

When happiness is liked by me and others equally, what is so special about me that I should strive after happiness only for myself?