Quotes About Interconnectedness

So everything is something else.

So this book, while continuing the Psy-Changeling storyline—because nothing is ever static in this world—is also a walk through the interconnected lives of many of the characters who've become important to us over the past books and novellas. With

Le vide n'existe pas. Le tableau est toujours achevé. Même si Scarlatti s'était contenté de transcrire les notes jouées par son chat, le morceau aurait été là. Un seul et unique cil suffit à reconstituer l'individu entier. Chaque partie contient le tout.

These things are happening all at once. These things are one thing. They are the inevitable result of all that went before. The power seeks its outlet. These things have happened before; they will happen again. These things are always happening.

We are of the universe, and by studying the universe we ultimately turn the mirror on ourselves.

All this sadness is connected like a spiral.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Technological change is neither additive nor subtractive. It is ecological. I mean "ecological" in the same sense as the word is used by environmental scientists. One significant change generates total change.

Theirs was a "language" that denied interconnectedness, proceeded without context, argued the irrelevance of history, explained nothing, and offered fascination in place of complexity and coherence.

If the well-being of my loved place depends on the well-being of Earth, I have a good reason for supporting the well-being of your loved place. I have selfish as well as cosmopolitan reasons for preserving the home-places of all human beings. Cosmopolitanism becomes thicker and more potent with this realization.

If you are observant, you will notice the swift echo or response to your every mood and key it to the circumstances of your daily life. When you understand the relationship between circumstances, you will know that everyone you meet is part of yourself.

Although others have bodies, a life of their own, their reality is rooted in you, ends in you, as yours end in God.

The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.

Att ha en stor social krets kan alltså göra dig lycklig, men om du är lycklig vidgar det inte nödvändigtvis din sociala krets. En position i mitten av nätverket leder till lycka - inte tvärtom. Ditt nätverks struktur och din plats i det har stor betydelse.

It is the story of all life that is holy and is good to tell, and of us two-leggeds sharing in it with the four-leggeds and the wings of the air and all green things; for these are children of one mother and their father is one Spirit.

Technology shapes economics, and economics shapes society.

Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve.

If they endangered us, they also saved us from danger. If they harmed us, we have harmed them.

She shines with your reflected wyrd.

This was the world I belonged to now, this one, where when a living thing died it fed others, where the scents were of mouse drops and sap, not exhaust fumes and cordite, and the air hummed with insects rather than screams and the roar of flame.

Cryptography by itself is fairly useless. It has to be part of a much larger system.

We are constantly "knitting" ourselves from people and situations that we encounter, through the words we exchange and the feelings that arise. We might feel that if one "stitch" is dropped, our lives will unravel. In fact, "if just one stitch holds, we can start all over again.

What we find is highly sensitive dependence to initial conditions, producing phase transitions. Once a critical threshold is passed, the fire spreads outwards, the disease becomes an epidemic, the material magnetic.