Quotes About Interconnectedness

A tangle, you know, is more powerful than a single thread alone.

the man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate…

There were so many Jacks she had known, and he had known so many Hazels. And maybe she wasn't going to be able to know all the Jacks that there would be. But all the Hazels that ever would be would have Jack in them, somewhere.

We cannot allow anything to come between us and our spirituality, or between us and our living process. If we do, we shall destroy ourselves and those around us.

Sistem bireye, birey sisteme benzer... Ve hepimiz bu sistemin içinde ya?ad???m?z için, bir sistem de?i?ikli?i ile iyile?me sa?lanmad??? sürece, bu sistemin bütün özelliklerini sergileriz.

Though we have talked about the chakras individually, remember that we are a complete, indivisible system. What affects one part affects the whole. As we change ourselves, so do we change the world.

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.

There's bleeding between age groups in terms of reading material, and there's bleeding between media. So there are books that are clearly comics and books that are prose, and then there are these books that are kind of in-between.

In the long run, no nation can prosper unless the world prospers.

It's almost impossible to have security at the expense of insecurity of others. It's almost impossible to have prosperity when there is a huge problem of poverty and backwardness all over the world.

We understand that America's prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.

Our security and prosperity are inextricably linked.

You know, Californians care about protecting their environment. So do I. But they also care about that in the context of a healthy economy.

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

being alone with each other in the dark universe, nourished by its only good, warmed by its only lights.

There is a paradoxical feature of pandemics: even though they have come to be named for specific locations, they are decidedly not contained by borders.

Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind.

Todo o mal do mundo vem de nos importarmos uns com os outros,    Quer para fazer bem, quer para fazer mal.

Signora, tutte le religioni sono vere, per quanto possano sembrare tra di loro opposte. Sono simboli differenti della stessa realtà, sono come la stessa frase detta in varie lingue; tanto che non si intendono gli uni con gli altri anche dicendo la stessa cosa.

Tudo que nos cerca se torna parte de nós, se nos infiltra na sensação da carne e da vida, e, baba da grande Aranha, nos liga subtilmente ao que está perto, enleando-nos num leito leve de morte lenta, onde baloiçamos ao vento. Tudo é nós, e nós somos tudo; mas de que serve isto, se tudo é nada?

I see humanity as merely one of Nature's latest schools of decorative painting. I don't distinguish in any fundamental way between a man and a tree, and I naturally prefer whichever is more decorative, whichever interests my thinking eyes.

Necesitar el dominio sobre los demás es necesitar de los demás.

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world.