Quotes About Interconnectedness

Life is dear to all beings, they have the right to live the same that we do.

Life creates conditions conducive to life.

Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.

Whenever we look at life, we look at networks.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

Being codependent means that when you die, someone else's life passes before your eyes.

There is no foreground or background, only a continuity of interlacing relationships

Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time.

Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing.

I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.

For me there is no difference between art and life.

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.

There is a seamless web to life.. all life is sacred.

Every aspect of personal life is radically affected by the quality of general life, and yet the general life is seen at its most important in completely personal terms.

I propose that there is another kind of power based not on resources, things, or attributes, but rooted in the social and cooperative relations in which people are enmeshed by virtue of group life.

The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

Therefore our choices need to be made carefully. Every single thing that one of us thinks says or does, impacts all the rest of humanity on one level or another.

Survival is the second law of life. The first is that we are all one.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

Whatever happens to seed affects the web of life.

I like that I am needed, that I am beholden to somebody.