Quotes About Interconnectedness

Our life is made by the death of others.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

As you become older in life...you will come to recognize that you are either just a convenience or a need in other people's lives.

I think that one person's story is always part of other people's stories.

What is not good for the beehive, cannot be good for the bees.

Nature insists on whatever benefits the whole.

We know from science that nothing in the universe exists as an isolated or independent entity.

The river never drinks its own water. The tree never tastes its own fruit. The field never consumes its own harvest. They selflessly strive for the well-being of all those around them. —Mewari proverb, India

The world thus appears as a complicated tissue of events, in which connections

Only in us do the dead live. Water flows downhill through us. The sun cools in our bones. We are joined with all living in one singing web of energy. In us live the dead who made us. In us live the children unborn. Breathing each other's air, drinking each other's water, eating each other's flesh, we grow like a tree from the earth.

Darwin proved that not only are humans and all other animals related but also that we together feel pain, share emotions, and possess memory, reason, and imagination. Rather than seeing humans and animals as categorically different, Darwin showed that all animals, including humans, share a continuum of mental and emotional capacities.

We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

Just like a sunbeam can't separate itself from the sun, and a wave can't separate itself from the ocean, we can't separate ourselves from one another. We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind.

no somos átomos aislados en este mundo, y nuestra conducta influye necesariamente en las vidas de muchas otras personas, a las que estamos ligados por lazos de sangre o de amistad.

Always acknowledge your position in the food chain... They eat because you grow the food.

Preparing food is not just about yourself and others. It is about everything!

When you have a Jewish mother who has a very strong Jewish family, it's very ethnic in its practices. Eating brisket, the food and the family and the interconnectedness for better or worse.

I am you; you are ME. You are the waves; I am the ocean. Know this and be free, be divine.

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and political, which are interrelated.

We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives.

One can find traces of every life in each life.