Quotes About Interconnectedness

C'était précisément ce que je commençais à remarquer de mon côté : comment tout était lié, comment les mauvaises choses qui se produisaient parfois débouchaient finalement sur de bonnes surprises.

We are still beholden to ecological laws, the same as any other life-form.

He also points out the butterflies and bees, the pollinators with wagging tongues, spreading rumors from one plant to another.

The Force is not a power you have," Luke said. "It's not about lifting rocks. It's the energy between all things—a tension, a balance that binds the universe together.

For the Hermeticist, the universe is a holographic unity, and understanding any aspect of it can aid in understanding all other aspects.

That's Systems Insight Number Two: Each of us sees only part of the problem (the part the other person is contributing). Systems Insight Number One is this: Each of us is part of the problem. Maybe not to the same extent, but we're both involved, each affecting the other.

Finally, we should consider the contribution system. Are we able to see our own contribution to the problem? Are we able to describe the other person's contribution without blaming? Are we aware of the ways that each of our contributions forms a reinforcing pattern that magnifies the problem? In what way does this shift how we feel?

En este sentido vale la pena reflexionar hasta dónde la sensación de poseer un yo es realmente individual. Desde mi particular punto de vista, además de que el yo es un proceso y una idea, su existencia y sus características reflejan patrones colectivos en parte aprendidos y en parte asociados con la existencia de interacciones directas entre cerebros y organismos.

but what's wholly marvellous my Darling is that you & i are more than you & i(be ca us e It's we)

Perhaps we all reappear, perhaps all our lives are impositions one on another.

Only connect!

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

When this delusion of utter separateness underlies and governs whatever I think, say, and do, what kind of world do I create?

Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work.

the end justifies the means. But the end and the means are one. And if the means did not contribute to human happiness, neither will the end.

The other more serious reason for the illusion of separateness is compulsive thinking. It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Even a stone has rudimentary consciousness; otherwise, it would not be, and its atoms and molecules would disperse. Everything is alive. The sun, the earth, plants, animals, humans — all are expressions of consciousness in varying degrees, consciousness manifesting as form.

There are no random events, nor are there events or things that exist by and for themselves, in isolation.

It is always the case that both victim and perpetrator suffer the consequences of any acts of violence, oppression, or brutality. For what you do to others, you do to yourself.

There's only one thing worse than the egoic me, and that's the egoic us.

Ultimately, of course, there is no other and you are always meeting yourself.

What you react to in another you strengthen within yourself.