Quotes About Interconnectedness

It is no longer about being correct. It is about being connected. Being in right relationship is much, much better than just trying to be "right.

One of the few generalizations we can make in the field of universal spirituality is this: No one else is your problem.

Because yank out one thread from the fabric of human destiny, and everything unravels. Though it could also be said that things have a tendency to unravel regardless.

Even up until the final moment of life, bat and moth are linked together forever, through time, and beyond. As a last-gasp evasive maneuver, a fleeing moth will sometimes stop its wingbeats in midflight, thereby ceasing to give off data to the bat's radar. But sometimes the bat will pause, too, so that the moth can't pick up any radar signals-the bat seeming to have disappeared-and for just the briefest of moments they will both hang there, suspended in eternity.

Maybe it was more than this. Maybe the bond that forms between people doesn't get unmade so easily. Maybe it leaves its mark for a long time.

I didn't understand how. But the toilets had responded to me. I had become one with the plumbing...

Sometimes mortals are not aware of the threads that bind them. You could both be wrong about the first time you met, and yet the two of you have orbited each other for so long, like heavenly bodies in the sky.

Each reported on a myriad others, filaments in an evangelistic web of treachery that stretched across the country.

There was a fine-tuning of Richard's and my temperaments during the years we lived with his heart disease, lymphoma, and lung cancer. Before, our differences had triggered sporadic tension; now our basic natures served us better. Our sensibilities and quirks evolved into something more shared and complex, more mingled.

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

It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I'd known, maybe I'd have kept tighter hold of them, and not let unseen tides pull us apart.

the Many returning to and embracing the One is Good, and is known as wisdom; the One returning to and embracing the Many is Goodness, and is known as compassion.

It seems that only when Ascending and Descending are united can both be saved. And if we—if you and I—do not contribute to this union, then it is very possible that not only will we destroy the only Earth we have, we will forfeit the only Heaven we might otherwise embrace.

Wisdom sees that the Many is One, and Compassion sees that the One is the Many. Or in the East: Prajna sees that Form is Emptiness, Karuna sees that Emptiness is Form.

I think that the only thing that can bring us into a place of fullness is being out in the land with other. Then we remember where the source of our power lies.

This world is inescapably linked to the motions of the worlds above. All power in this world is ruled by these options.

One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.

Consciously join with and become part of the power that is in everything around you.

Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements.

Globalization is a form of artificial intelligence.

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Life is a relationship among molecules and not a property of any molecule.