Quotes About Interconnectedness

We're like the sea, people our waves Necessarily we are associated with everyone.

you will become everything, including the moving and the inert.

Meaning is not in things but in-between them.

We realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don't open up. We know we have to do it. And as soon as we start to try, we realize immediately that there is no way that we could ever do this alone, because opening up means opening to what's around us, to others, to the world, and to our radical connectedness.

But the whole point of mind training is to promote, to the bottom of our hearts, down to our bones, even to the marrow, the understanding and the feeling that we are not alone in this sadly poignant situation. We are together in it with everyone else. And that makes it beautiful, and even joyful, no matter how hard it may get.

The alternative to dualism is dialectics: that is to say, love

He wants us to understand that we are only branches which have changed trees. We never produced fruit without a tree! To

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

Every individual is the center of a system of emanation.

The whole of the visible is incorporated in the invisible and the audible in the inaudible, and the tangible in the intangible. There is no doubt that everything that can be thought about is incorporated into everything that cannot be thought about.

All successful life is Adaptable, Opportunistic, Tenacious, Interconnected, and Fecund. Understand this. Use it. Shape God.

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Real wisdom lies in linking everything together—that's when the true shape of all of it emerges.

S gledišta prirode nema korisnih i nekorisnih bi?a. To je samo glupavo razlikovanje koje primjenjuju ljudi." str. 156.

And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex Cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate. That is how it works. Like a Japanese car.

And that the world is a great big net, it is a whole, where no single thing exists separately; every scrap of the world, every last tiny piece, is bound up with the rest by a complex cosmos of correspondences, hard for the ordinary mind to penetrate.

Med štirikratnimi menjavami letnih ?asov drevo ne ve, da obstaja ?as in da si letni ?asi sledijo. Za drevo obstajajo vse vrednosti hkrati. Zima je del poletja, jesen del pomladi, del vro?ine je hlad, del rojevanja je smrt. Ogenj je del vode in zemlja del zraka.

In our perception all life is equal, and that includes the birds, animals, things that grow, things that swim. All life is equal in our perception.

If we in the West, where so much of the world's political and economic power reside, are going to find a way to make the changes that are necessary to ensure that our children's children can live on this planet, we have to learn how to participate fully in our own lives, how to remember and experience the interconnectedness of all spirit and matter. I seek wisdom in a life that combines contemplation and action.

People's beliefs don't exist in isolation. Everyone's firmly held beliefs exert an enormous pressure on everyone else.

Humans, in order to rise above the animals, had learned how to convert themselves into nothing more than organs or limbs or even disposable fingernails and hair of a larger metaphorical organism.

What is society but an individual?

En la naturaleza, personas, animales o serpientes, estamos todos en el mismo barco

The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge of al-tawhid.