Quotes About Interconnectedness

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity.

Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.

You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.

Compassion is the awareness of a deep bond between yourself and all creatures.

Everything in the world is actually connected. That means, even if we get separated, we'll never be alone

The human form is a microcosm of the universe. All that supposedly exists outside us in reality exists in us. The world is in you and can become known in you, as you.

Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.

The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain

Would people know that nothing can happen unless the entire universe makes it happen, they would achieve much more with less expenditure of energy.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

You are the land. The land is you.

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.

You are all stardust.

All things come out of the one, and the one out of all things.

What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.

In all darkness, there is a light and in all light there is a darkness.

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.