Quotes About Interconnectedness

Buddhist practice includes the notion that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been each other's mothers and fathers and children and siblings. Therefore, we should treat each person we encounter as if they are our beloved.

Buddhist practice includes the notion that we have all been born many times before and that we have all been each other's mothers and fathers and children and siblings. Therefore, we should treat each person we encounter as if they are our beloved.

For all its interconnectedness, music is marked by a unique and irreducible integrity, its own way of working.

Attachment is a unifying principle that reaches from the biological depths of our being to its furthest spiritual reaches.

I've learned that depending on others isn't a sign of individual weakness, but of communal strength.

One thing I've found that eases the pain," Cody said, 'is to remember that we are all connected, to those we know and those we don't know.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

Thich Nhat Hanh

The lesson here is that "silo thinking"—each component operating in a vacuum—can destroy a healthy functioning community, whether in nature or in business

The human desire to experience union with others is rooted in the specific conditions of existence that characterize the human species and is one of the strongest motivators of human behavior.

The essence of the Torah is the command: Do not do unto others as you should not want them to do unto you—the rest is commentary. Go and study.

O amor não é, primacialmente, uma relação para com uma pessoa específica; é uma atitude, uma orientação de caráter, que determina a relação de alguém para com o mundo como um todo, e não para com um "objeto" de amor.

Wenn ich einen Menschen wahrhaft liebe, so liebe ich alle Menschen, so liebe ich die Welt, so liebe ich das Leben. Wenn ich zu einem anderen sagen kann: Ich liebe dich, muss ich auch sagen können: Ich liebe in dir auch alle anderen, ich liebe durch dich die ganze Welt, ich liebe in dir auch mich selbst.

We all feed on one another. Such occasional little sparks of kindliness—that's something one shouldn't allow to be taken away. It strengthens one for a difficult life.

Far from a clamor for war, there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete—that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one another that even if a war were to begin, it would end quickly.

The becomingness of everything that may be seen as a modestly contributive part of a grand whole.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

Besides, he thought, everything kills everything else in some way. Fishing kills me exactly as it keeps me alive.

Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart but mine.

Everything kills everything else in some way.

There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me.

The message of all spirituality is that, in some mysterious way, we are all one—that therefore the joy and the sorrow of any one of us is the joy and the sorrow of all of us.

As we listen, truly hearing, our understanding of the world changes from a self-centered focus to an other-oriented openness—we come to understand how we are connected

Air France's in-flight magazine.