Quotes About Interconnectedness

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side, 'said the dewdrop to the lake.

Thirty spokesShare one hub.Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart.

Heaven's net is wide, but its mesh is fine

He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.

It's all part of it, man.

Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond.

Feel the connection!

Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment.

The world is a woven basket. Every stitch counts.

We are all One and others are simply reflections of ourselves. When the mirror is cleared, the reflection becomes clean too.

In a formal socialization, no one individual can stand without the other to rely on, regardless of the situation.

We are all a small part of a puzzle which contains billions of pieces. The puzzle cannot be complete without each and every one.

We are all one on a living planet, and only our egos, fears, and beliefs separate us.

Panchakrama, When voidness and appearance both Are seen as each the aspect of the other, They blend together perfectly And thus are said to be united.

Being manifests Itself in everything. If you want to discover Its state in everything, Go and see how the bubbles are on top of the wine: The wine is they in them and they are wine in the wine!

Según las enseñanzas Zen, cada vez que comemos ingerimos la energía vital de incontables seres. La comida en nuestro plato es producto del sol, la tierra, la lluvia, los insectos que polinizaron las plantas y de muchas personas, como labradores, camioneros y tenderos.

The Nature is our Balance.

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

3 or 4 families in a Country Village is the very thing to work on.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

There are days when I think there really is some huge great tapestry of a plan out there and we're all woven into it - this fabulous, complex pattern of life and death, full of recurring motifs and waves of color, and we're each one tiny thread in the weave.