Quotes About Interconnectedness

In each visible, all of the visible...Overlapping, total part--no break between Nature and humanity.

The inside is seen in the outside--grasps it better than itself. Relation to the outside that is not 'representation' but ecstasy...And reciprocally, the visible is the transactions, the chemistry, the music, and interrelationship and the 'operation of interests' [Claudel] of Anima.

As the parts of my body together comprise a system, so my body and the other's are one whole, two sides of one and the same phenomenon, and the anonymous existence of which my body is the ever-renewed trace henceforth inhabits both bodies simultaneously.

The negative has its positive side, the positive its negative, and it is precisely because each has its contrary within itself that they are capable of passing into one another, and perpetually play the role of warring brothers in history.

Self and other are not two distinct substances...We are both, other and self, two variables of the same system.

We shall render explicit the cohesion of the obverse and the reverse of my body which is responsible for the fact that my body—which is visible, tangible like a thing—acquires this view upon itself, this contact with itself, where it doubles itself up, unifies itself, in such a way that the objective body and the phenomenal body turn about one another or encroach upon one another.

Objects form a system in which one object cannot appear without concealing others.

With psychoanalysis mind passes into body, as inversely, body passes into mind.

I never rejoin the other's lived experience. It is in the world that we rejoin one another.

All flesh, and even that of the world, radiates beyond itself.

It's just a playing field crammed full of cause and effect, billions of dominoes, each knocking over billions more, setting off trillions of actions every second.

Pero estamos todos entrelazados, como las hebras de un trozo de tela, y nos apoyamos mutuamente, por suerte o por desgracia.

It wasn't easy to understand how the love between two other people could diminish you.

One does not have to be Christian to see that [John] Donne was right. To be ill is to recognize this interconnectedness -- to understand how much we are "a part of the main." But to be ill in America today is to be brought up against the pathology of a culture that denies this fact. In the worst moments of my illness, I was alone because of the ways that we have allowed ourselves to believe that the self, rather than the community, must do all the healing.

Earth can happily live without us, but we can no way live without earth!

The earth exists not for us but for itself; the Sun shines not for us, but for its own life!

The enemy of a tree is not only the enemy of humanity, but also the enemy of all the living beings!

The reason while we are in danger in this universe is this: We need the universe but the universe does not need us!

The scent of the morning is prepared by the night; the scent of the night is prepared by the day; everything helps everything!

A política é desses incêndios que se acendem na casa do outro e quem arde é a nossa casa.

Beijo não se dá nem se recebe. A vida é que beija, recíproca. Repito, mano: a vida é que nos beija, dois seres se resumindo num único infinito.

Você devia ser como esses passaritos que vivem nas costas do hipopótamo: ser precisado pelos grandes, mas não ser visto por ninguém.

Naquele momento confirmei o que há muito suspeitava: não há nada neste mundo que não esteja sob a minha pele. A rocha, a árvore, tudo vive por baixo da minha epiderme. Não há fora, não há longe: tudo é carne, nervo e osso.

Our reputation has been hurt very badly in the last few years. We've had a go-it-alone mentality in a world where because of communications and transportation, you should be going exactly in the other direction.