Quotes About Interconnectedness

In normal life one is often not at all aware that we always receive infinitely more than we give, and that gratitude is what enriches life. One easily overestimates the importance of one's own acts and deeds, compared with what we become only through other people.

Holy Scripture does not consist of individual passages; it is a unit and is intended to be used as such.

When ignorance disappears, so too does the distiction between self and others.

No one can sacrifice for another. We each sacrifice ourselves, and thereby gain the power to give magical help to each other.

We don't stop at our skin.

Each event touching another; like threads that design in concert, creating the fabric that is life.

I have no soul: I am not a substance, and there is no real me. There is only what I am able, rather uncertainly, to make of myself as I go along, and what you can make of me: that is, I am only a stream of events, a process in time, and all ideas of me are only interpretations of that process, or bits of it.

In the Sawi universe, not only man, but all things are communicating.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees.

How wonderful will it be when all beings experience each other as limbs on the one body of life.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

He who experiences the unity of life sees his own self in all beings.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Each of us carries a unique spark of the divine, and each of us is also an inseparable part of the web of life.

Imagine that it's not about the self and its concerns, about 'what's in it for me,' whether that be a blessed afterlife or prosperity in this life.

The only real life is the collective life of the race; individual life has no existence except as an abstraction.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.

All things are connected. Whatever befalls the Earth, befalls the children of the Earth.

Where the quality of life goes down for the environment, the quality of life goes down for humans.

The line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible.

Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.