Quotes About Interconnectedness

We can't control systems or figure them out. But we can dance with them!

The behavior of a system cannot be known just by knowing the elements of which the system is made. PART ONE System Structure and Behavior

The bounded rationality of each actor in a system may not lead to decisions that further the welfare of the system as a whole.

Dynamic systems studies usually are not designed to predict what will happen. Rather, they're designed to explore what would happen, if a number of driving factors unfold in a range of different ways.

System structure is the source of system behavior. System behavior reveals itself as a series of events over time.

Physical structure is crucial in a system, but is rarely a leverage point, because changing it is rarely quick or simple. The leverage point is in proper design in the first place.

Precise knowledge of how all things are entangled with all others at the quantum level.

quantum entanglement. Everything in the universe is connected in some way with every other thing. Drove Einstein crazy. And quantum physics suggests that the universe is shaped by consciousness rather than the other way around.

If there is an abiding theme in The Pursuit of Happiness it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories. How you then grapple with everything life throws in your path—and how your own sense of ethics dictates so much about your dealings with life's larger questions—determines so much. "Character

being human is a team sport.

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

Un ejemplo de un cuerpo correlacionado es el cuerpo humano, el cual está constituido por una enorme cantidad de elementos celulares mutuamente relacionados y dependientes y el cual funciona, en su totalidad, como una unidad.

Por otro lado, si consideramos a la conciencia como el dato original, se puede concluir que lo que llamamos fuerza gravitacional está ligada a la conciencia y que, por lo tanto, se puede modificar a través de la acción humana.

Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.

He no longer clung to the simplistic ideals of right and wrong or good and evil. He understood better than anyone that dark and light were intertwined in strange and complex ways.

Complex systems are not really random in the same way that a coin toss is random, but in practice it's extremely difficult to tell the difference.

Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life.

Once you realize that the universe is made up of processes, not things, you are really on a roll, for what makes life truly interesting are the connections between events.

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution.

Life is one indivisible whole.

Life doesn't happen to us, but happens with us.

What we do every day - whether you live in Mexico, the United States, Russia, China can have a very negative impact on an entire way of life for an entire people far away from that source

"Life is unfair" "The goalposts will move" and above all: "other people matter"

They taught me that all life forms are important to each other in our common quest for happiness and survival. That there is more to life than just yourself, your own family, or your own kind.