Quotes About Interconnectedness

In the indigenous view, humans are viewed as somewhat lesser beings in the democracy of species

As I listen to them, I hear another whisper from the swaying stand of cattails, from spruce boughs in the wind, a reminder that caring is not abstract. The circle of ecological compassion we feel is enlarged by direct experience of the living world, and shrunken by its lack.

Today we have gathered and when we look upon the faces around us we see that the cycles of life continue. We have been given the duty to live in balance and harmony with each other and all living things. So now let us bring our minds together as one as we give greetings and thanks

What would it be like, I wondered, to live with that heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours? To consider the tree in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the oaks in the floor, the grapes in the wine; to follow back the thread of life in everything and pay it respect? Once you start, it's hard to stop, and you begin to feel yourself awash in gifts.

If gifts and responsibilities are one, then asking "What is our responsibility?" is the same as asking "What is our gift?

We have to live like people in a web of knives, we mustn't reach out our hands or we get them gashed.

It sounds simple to say, almost simplistic, but all of us are connected by love and by gratitude.

I did, in fact, believe life was fair. Well, not fair exactly, but balanced. Yin and yang. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Bitter and sweet. One did not exist without the other. When life is bad, you know it's going to get better. When life is good, you know it's going to go bad. If that's not fair, I don't know what is.

There is a part of us in everyone else.

Nothing we do is ever done entirely alone. There is a part of us in everyone else

It's not true. I need all of you. We need each other.

You connect everything you can think of with everything else you can think of until there is no "anything" left.

Everything in Heaven and Earth is connected to everything in Heaven and Earth.

Everything in Heaven and Earth is the reflection of everything in Heaven and Earth. ? Everything in Heaven and Earth contains the pattern of everything in Heaven and Earth.

We are Qazbalists not to prove the Bible is holy— we are Qabalists because everything is holy. —RABBI LAMED BEN CLIFFORD

When man becomes greater than nature, nature, which gave us birth, will respond.

Despite the fact that our brains are social organs, Western science studies each individual as a single, isolated organism rather than one embedded within the human community. This way of thinking leads us in the West to search for technical and abstract answers to human problems instead of looking at day-to-day human interactions

Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.

Time and space. Castillian needs two words : ' tiempo ' and ' espacio '. Quechua has one : ' pacha '. Pacha is space, and Pacha is time, for neither exists without the other.

tengo la creciente sensación de que hay una continuidad en la mente humana; de que, en efecto, existe un inconsciente colectivo que nos entreteje, como si fuéramos cardúmenes de apretados peces que danzan al unísono sin saberlo.

God and the world are not two things to be added together. Neither are they two things that are 'really' one thing. They exist in an asymmetrical relation in which one depends wholly on the other, yet is fully itself, made to be and to act according to its own logic and structure.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

In Zen we have a story. If your left hand gets a painful splinter, what does your right hand do? Does your right hand say, "Oh, that's too bad, but it's not my problem"? No, of course not. The right hand pulls the splinter out. This is interconnectedness.

Waves and starlings, pebbles and crows . . .