Quotes About Interconnectedness

What is thine is mine, and all mine is thine. [Lat., Quod tuum'st meum'st; omne meum est autem tuum.]

Man is a knot a web a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter.

The bird a nest the spider a web man friendship.

The particular human chain we're a part of is central to our individual identity.

There is always something Right in something that is Wrong and something Wrong in something that is Right.

The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.

Happiness is a misaddressed emotion. When you seek it for yourself, it cannot be found. But when you give it to others, it'll find it's way back to you!

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Family is pivotal, beyond the immediate family is the family of mankind. Connection with others, the need to feel others as a part of ourselves and ourselves as a part of them is an impulse native to all of us. We call people without this connectedness sick.

A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living

We have believed - and we do believe now - that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible

Tengo la sensación de que vivimos en una Sociedad que observa las cosas de una manera muy superficial. Nuestra mirada revolotea de aquí para allá y normalmente sólo se para ante lo que nos parece sorprendente. Hoy falta alcance para ver más allá de lo aparente, falta profundidad para reflexionar sobre las realidades más importantes de la vida y, falta amplitud para descubrir la manera en la que todo está interconectado ", pag. 23.

Albert Einstein said it best: "Science without religion is lame, and conversely, religion without science is blind.

We're so shit at seeing the Macro, and ultimately it's those macro uncoupling dynamics that matter more than anything else.

We know that energy cannot be destroyed, but goes shape-shifting through the world. What was once in some portion that star is me now, and later I may be some strong supporting cells in the neck of an August lily, or the glint in the stem of a new-blown piece of glass. If our lot is mutability of form, then why be surprised that our energies might not be refracted and recurrent in the world.

There is no one great man. Only millions of men and women in possession of tiny pieces of greatness, which when put together, when assembled in the aggregate make the whole. I am a piece of a very large jigsaw puzzle. One of the corner pieces. The one you go for first - important for a time, different from most of the others. But then, in the end, in the big picture, just one of many.

we are a we-species who do individually what we do largely because of each other. As my childhood excuse ran, 'Bigger boys made me do

The Taoists realised that all opposites aren't opponents that must clash but are part of a dynamic balance of existence, necessary to create and sustain life.

Life is not random. There are no coincidences. Human beings are more than mere molecules bouncing around life without reason. We bounce around life with a purpose. We are meant to bounce off specific other human beings during our lives, other human beings who will change the content and course of our lives.

there is a great choice that awaits us every day: whether we go around carving holes in others because we have been so painfully carved ourselves, or whether we let spirit play its song through our tender experience, enabling us to listen, as well, to the miraculous music coming through others.

We hang suspended in His love. When one heart moves the whole web trembles.

She insisted that she had not gone back to the land. She would say that we all live on the land, whether we know it or not.

Out there, in nature's cathedral everything becomes one.