Quotes About Interconnectedness

There are countries that prefer to think that they're buying comfort at the cost of others, but I don't think that's the way you can act in this world. There are no neutral groups.

Women study things in order to figure out how they're connected to other things. I don't know if it's controversial to say that, but that's what I've seen from doing science for a couple of decades.

Your connections to all the things around you literally define who you are.

Denmark is a small place. We all know each other.

Most people depend on a lot of other people.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

In space, everything is dependent on everything else and one hiccup causes a lot of ripple effects.

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

There exists everywhere a medium in things, determined by equilibrium.

It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day.

Scientists and academics in particular focus on detail and the minutiae. When they talk to each other, they usually don't focus on the broad ideas; they don't focus on social interconnectedness. They focus on the task that they're doing.

So 'The Last Airbender' 's philosophy and culture feels like a beautiful idea to me: That we inherently have connections to the elements and what they teach us, and to each other.

We can't afford to live in isolation, and we need to teach our kids that the things that they do not only matter to others far away but impact others who live far away, and there are ripples of effect.

I'm not one of those one-man-gang type of players. I'm a guy who has to rely on his teammates, to play within the team structure.

Specialists are the animals that remind us what an incredible fluke it is that our world exists at all; that the temperature is what it is, that the air we breathe is 21 percent oxygen. They remind us how much damage even the smallest changes to that system can cause and they show us how badly we're screwing things up.

The message is unmistakable; our own healing proceeds from that overlap of what we call good and evil, light and dark. It is not that the light element alone does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is where miracles arise. This middle place is a mandorla.

Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.

When I'm moved to complain about others I vow with all beings to remember that karma is endless and it's loving that leads to love.

The self is completely autonomous, yet exists only in resonance with all other selves.

Once one thinks like a mountain, the whole world is converted. All things confirm me. Then I sit on dojo cushions that do not move. There is no controller and no one to control.

A concern for the common good—keeping the common good in mind—is a moral attitude. It recognizes that we're all in it together. If there is no common good, there is no society.

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

We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.